Practice question · True or false
World-systems analysis divides the world economy into core, semi-periphery and periphery, and was developed before the term globalisation came into general use.
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- Wallerstein’s first volume appeared in the mid-1970s.
- The vocabulary of globalisation became common in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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True. Wallerstein’s first volume appeared in 1974, well before the vocabulary of globalisation spread. That chronology is part of his argument: on his account a single world division of labour had existed since the sixteenth century, so what the 1990s discovered was not a new phenomenon but a new name.
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