Samir Amin - Libros y biografía

Ouvrage des Nouvelles Editions Numériques Africaines en coédition avec NENAour ceux qui ne voient dans le matérialisme historique qu'un simple déterminisme économique linéaire, réduit à l'analyse des...

Marx s'était proposé de traiter de l'économie capitaliste mondiale dans un volume VI du Capital, qui n'a jamais vu le jour. De ce fait, les marxismes historiques, largement confinés dans l'exégèse des...

Le choix du titre de cet ouvrage est par lui-même indicatif de la position politique de son auteur : oui, je souhaite la construction d'un monde multipolaire, ce qui implique évidemment la déroute du...

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

I begin with a « personal note : I first read Marx when I was 20 years of age and then reread him every twenty years at moments that corresponded to major changes in the course of history. In 1950, hidden...

While the economic and historical literature on the English-speaking countries of West Africa is comparatively rich, little comparable study and analysis have been accomplished for the French-speaking...

With great clarity, this updated edition explains the complex changes of the late-20th and early-21st centuries, including the transformations in Eastern Europe and in the world economy, the growth of...

Samir Amin is an Egyptian national and one of the leading scholars in the world in this era. He has written many books particularly on the subject of political economy, twelve of these having been translated...

This book brings together various contributions I have written for the elaboration of a global history. They have been published in French and English in different periodicals and on different dates,...

Amin defends Marx's theory of value against its critics and also tackles some of its trickier aspects. He examines the relationship between Marx's abstract concepts - such as « socially necessary labor...

Samir Amin, one of the most influential economists today, has produced another groundbreaking work. Spectres of Capitalism cuts through the current intellectual fashions that assume a global capitalist...

Is there anything inherently wrong with Africa that the continent has remained immobilized in a milieu characterized with rapid transformation in other parts of the globe? Is Africa caught in a web of...

The title chosen for the French edition of this book, Pour un monde multipolaire, should already be indicative of the author's political position. Yes, I do want to see the construction of a multipolar...

TOWARDS THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY a sickness struck the world. Not everyone died, but all suffered from it. The virus which caused the epidemic was called the « liberal virus. » This virus made...

Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world's foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes...

We all live on a planet whose destiny we collectively determine, or so we are told. And it is undeniable that the globalization which began five centuries ago with the European conquest of the Americas...

A reader once remarked that my works deal with three sets of problems : (a) concrete analyses of the situation of third world countries (Egypt, the Maghreb, West Africa, the Congo), (b) a theory of capitalist...

Capitalism is a world system. Its victims can effectively face its challenges only if they are also organized at the global level. However, the unequal development associated with the global spread of...

Marx is not a philosopher, a historian, an economist, a political scientist, or a sociologist. He is not even a scholar of the first rank in any of those disciplines. Nor even a talented professor who...

Les réflexions réunies dans cet ouvrage s'inscrivent contre l'air du temps façonné par la propagande du clergé médiatique au service de l'aristocratie financière. L'Empire des Tsars, l'Union soviétique,...

These memoirs were largely written during the 1990s. I did not consider it useful to update the book to take into account later events. The reader may find such considerations in my recent writings.

With his usual verve and sharpness Samir Amin examines the factors that brought about the 2008 financial collapse and explores the systemic crisis of capitalism after two decades of neoliberal globalisation....

Un point fait aujourd'hui largement débat : faut-il soutenir ou au contraire rejeter la souveraineté nationale? Or pour l'auteur, cette question de stratégie fait l'objet de graves malentendus, tant que...

Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally...

This collection of essays elaborates and applies the ideas developed by the author in Accumulation on a World Scale (MR Press, 1974) and Unequal Development (MR Press, 1976). Marxism, according to Samir...

This fascinating history of ideas presents a theoretical overview of each new stage of the past half-century by an outstanding intellectual, grounded in a wide knowledge of economic theory and the practical...

This book explores the causes and trends of the current crisis of the domination system in the Arab world. The Member President of the World Forum for Alternatives invites its authors —outstanding academics...

La question paysanne et le capitalisme est le deuxième volume de la nouvelle collection Anthropos - I.D.E.P. dirigée par Samir Amin. La soumission de l'agriculture au mode de production capitaliste, fondée...

This book is being republished after a decade, where Samir Amin analyses the role and future of Maoism in China and the implications of its success or failure for the entire Third World. In the frist...

Only at the end of the nineteenth century did a worldwide civilization begin to take shape. During the first seventy years of the twentieth century, however, which have been marked by a speeding up of...