Immanuel Wallerstein, an American sociologist and historian who is known for his “world system theory” that views the modern world as one system, died on August 31. I was 88 years old. An official from the University of New York at Binghamton, where he belonged, revealed.
Born 1930 in New York. Established a global system theory that looks at modern capitalism from the perspective of international division of labor rather than national history. Since the days of the Great Voyage, the world capitalist system centered on “hegemony countries” such as the 17th century Netherlands, the 19th century United Kingdom, and the 20th century United States, in the middle of trade such as silver, sugar and cotton. Claimed to have formed. It was influential as a macroscopic historical theory that replaced Marxism, which lost its authority at the end of the Cold War.
The main work is “Modern World System”, which was published in 1974. The original plan was to describe all four volumes from 1450 to the present day, but the fourth volume that came out in 2011 is up to 1914 and is not complete. In addition, "capitalism as a historical system" and "after liberalism". (Satoshi Ouchi, editorial board member, Shoji Murayama)