This man criticized modernization theorists for focusing on (*) nation-states as units of society, arguing we should rather examine the international division of labor between a wealthy core and a periphery with raw commodities and cheap labor.
In the introduction to one book, this man defended his reasoning a posteriori by comparing social science to what astronomers do. He argued that the inability of producers to continue maintaining a quasi-monopolistic status would lead to a breakdown of capitalism in the essay "Structural Crisis," which appears in a recent collection he coauthored with four other people, Does Capitalism Have a Future? In the first of a four volume series, this former head of the Fernand Braudel Center describes how increasing epidemics and climate change led to the failure of feudal society and forced Europeans to embrace an expanding capitalism. This man criticized modernization theorists for focusing on (*) nation-states as units of society, arguing we should rather examine the international division of labor between a wealthy core and a periphery with raw commodities and cheap labor. For 10 points, name this creator of world-systems theory.
In the introduction to one book, this man defended his reasoning a posteriori by comparing social science to what astronomers do.
Immanuel (Maurice) Wallerstein