Giovanni Arrighi was an Italian economist and sociologist, born in 1937, who became a world-systems analyst and, from 1998, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work, translated into more than fifteen languages, examined the long-term evolution of global capitalism, including the historical shift of economic power toward East Asia. He died in 2009.
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Arrighi The Long Twentieth Century traced successive systemic cycles of capital accumulation organized around a series of hegemonic imperial powers.
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1. Giovanni Arrighi (Wikipedia)
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Giovanni Arrighi (7 July 1937-18 June 2009) was an Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst
Biography section, first sentence
Arrighi was born in Milan, Italy in 1937.
Biography section, final paragraph
Arrighi died in his home in Baltimore on 18 June 2009.
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Giovanni Arrighi was an Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst, from 1998 a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages.
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1994 The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
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