PO220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Global Integrity, Good Governance, Income Distribution
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Original dependency theory all spanish, as it originated in latin american countries. Most dependency scholars were more nuanced and concerned with historical context, so it"s easier to poke holes in what andre gunder frank said, but it was still influential. Capitalism emerged as part of a process where development and under development went together. Development wouldn"t have been possible without under developing the global south. Because of this history, there is no possibility of catching up, and the global capitalist system was structured to have a hierarchy in place, so countries in poorer standing could not improve their status. Most marxists had more in common with modernization theorists. These regions of the world, already capitalist. They provided labour and resources to help other countries develop and reach capitalist ideals. Studied how slave trade that took place made possible the emergence of the middle class in. Contextualized this in form of triangle (in slides)
