Dependency theory was a popular radical critique of Western capitalist nations in their relations with the Third World during the 1960s and 1970s, and still has its advocates. It derives from a theory of economic imperialism, and is also used as a...

Exploitation theory applied to small countries. A small country exporting agricultural commodities finds that the control of its economy, especially its trade, shipping, insurance, banking and port facilities, passes to foreigners who are often...

Conceived in the 1960s by analysts native to developing countries, dependency theory is an alternative to Eurocentric accounts of modernization as universalistic, unilinear evolution (Addo 1996). Instead, contemporary underdevelopment is seen as an...

Dependency theory is a body of social science theories, both from developed and developing nations, that are predicated on the notion that there is a center of wealthy states and a periphery of poor, underdeveloped states. Resources are extracted from...

The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency By Martha Albertson Fineman The New Press, 2004. 387 pages. $25.95 (cloth), $18.95 (paper) In an era when "the autonomy myth" is proliferating--most recently, through the promotion of "personal or private accounts" for Social Security--this...

INTRODUCTION Corporate ownership and governance differ among the world's advanced economies. Some countries' corporations are diffusely owned with managers firmly in control, other countries' corporations have concentrated ownership, and in still others, labor strongly influences the firm. During the past half-century since...