Samir Amin

1931-2018·16,550 citations

Samir Amin was a prominent Egyptian-French Marxian economist and political scientist who served as the director of the Third World Forum in Dakar. He was a leading figure in dependency theory and world-systems analysis, best known for coining the term 'Eurocentrism' and developing theories on 'delinking' and unequal development between the global center and periphery.

Works

150 works

Title	Year	Language	Citations▼
Accumulation on a world scale : A critique of the theory of underdevelopment	1974	fr	3,722
Capitalism in the Age of Globalization	2014	—	1,970
Le développement inégal	1973	fr	1,321
Underdevelopment and dependence in Black Africa—origins and contemporary forms	1972	en	1,010
Néocolonialisme	1973	—	913
Maldevelopment: Anatomy of a global failure	2011	—	806
Modern migrations in western Africa	2018	en	672
Liberal virüs	2016	—	455
Accumulation and development: a theoretical model	1974	—	409
Imperialismo y globalización	2001	—	408
Capitalismo, Imperialismo	2001	—	384
The millennium development goals: A critique from the south	2006	—	365
Transforming the Revolution: Social Movement and the World System	2006	en	362
L'empire du chaos: la nouvelle mondialisation capitaliste	1992	—	350
Más allá del capitalismo senil: por un siglo XXI no norteamericano	2003	entr.	311
Beyond US hegemony: Assessing the prospects for a multipolar world	2006	—	291
The challenge of globalization	1996	en	291
Global history: A view from the South	2010	—	262
Desconexión, La	1988	fr	262
Obsolescent capitalism: Contemporary politics and global disorder	2003	en	261
Underdevelopment and dependence in black Africa: Historical origin	1972	en	237
L'eurocentrisme: critique d'une idéologie	1988	—	229
Spectres of capitalism: A critique of current intellectual fashions	1998	—	222
Ending the crisis of capitalism or ending capitalism?	2010	en	218
World poverty, pauperization & capital accumulation	2003	—	206
Les défis de la mondialisation	1996	entr.	200
The ancient world-systems versus the modern capitalist world-system	2014	—	191
L'échange inégal et la loi de la valeur	1987	—	185
Modern imperialism, monopoly finance capital, and Marx's law of value: monopoly capital and Marx's law of value	2018	—	155
L'économie du Maghreb (1): La colonisation et la décolonisation	1966	—	147
Le monde des affaires sénégalais	1969	—	143
The world we wish to see: Revolutionary objectives in the twenty-first century	2008	—	143
A Note on the Concept of Delinking	1987	—	141
Geopolítica del imperialismo contemporáneo	2004	—	138
La Faillite du Développement en Afrique et dans le Tiers Monde: Une analyse politique	1985	fr	133
Migrations in contemporary Africa	1995	en	130
Trois expériences africaines de développement: le Mali, la Guinée et le Ghana	1965	—	122
Contemporary imperialism	2017	—	117
Emperyalizm ve eşitsiz gelişme	2018	frtr.	116
Impérialisme et sous-développement en Afrique	1988	—	115
The issue of democracy in the contemporary Third World	1991	—	109
Chine 2013	2013	—	106
Contemporary imperialism and the agrarian question	2012	—	104
US imperialism, Europe, and the Middle East	2004	—	104
SADCC: prospects for disengagement and development in Southern Africa	1987	—	102
El fracaso del desarrollo en África y en el Tercer Mundo: un análisis político	1994	frtr.	98
The return of fascism in contemporary capitalism	2014	en	95
The return of fascism in contemporary capitalism	2014	en	93
Regionalization in response to polarizing globalization	1999	—	90
O imperialismo, passado e presente	2005	—	88