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Subject: Andre Gunder Frank BIBLIO-BIOGRAPHY ANDRE GUNDER FRANK

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PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
Andre Gunder Frank is a member of the Graduate Faculty of
Sociology at the University of Toronto and Professor Emeritus
of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of
Amsterdam. Born in Berlin in l929 and a German citizen, he is
married to University of Toronto Professor Nancy Howell.
Frank was educated in the United States, received a Ph D in
economics at the University of Chicago in 1957 and the
Doctorat d'Etat at the University of Paris in 1978. He speaks
and reads English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian,
German and Dutch and has taught in departments of
anthropology, economics, history, political science and
sociology at universities in Europe, North and Latin America.

International recognition of his work includes being named the
first "Eminent Senior Scholar" in International Political
Economy by the International Studies Association [1989], the
grant of a research award by the MacArthur Foundation [1990],
being named to the editorial boards of a half dozen academic
journals, and entries in Who's Who In the World and a half
dozen other biographical dictionaries. The Underdevelopment of
Development: Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder Frank by 17
contributors and edited by Sing Chew and Robert Denemark
[Thousand Oaks/London: Sage Publications 1996], contains a
bibliography of 880 publications in 27 languages by Frank
between 1955 and 1995. These include 36 books in 126 different
language editions, 158 chapters in 134 edited books, and over
350 articles in about 600 periodicals in many languages. The
International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam has
archived and catalogued these periodical publications, and 11
shelf meters of Frank's surviving original manuscripts,
interviews, correspondence, and other professional and
personal documents. Frank's writings have also been
extensively discussed in scores of books by other authors and
in over 3,000 periodical articles listed in the Social Science
Citation Index in fields like anthropology, communications,
criminology, development, ecology, economics, education,
ethnic studies, geography, health, history, humanities,
international relations, law, nursing, peasant studies,
planning, political science, psychology, sociology, tourism,
urbanism, and in journals in and area studies on Africa, Asia,
China, Europe, India, Latin and North America.

WORKS ON CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Early interests and publications were primarily in the
analysis of social organization and change, Third World
development, and the Soviet Economy, including a PhD thesis
comparing productivity changes in agriculture and industry in
the Ukraine. After moving to Latin America in 1962, research,
publications and teaching focused primarily on developing a
theory of "dependence and development of underdevelopment." It
became known especially through the book Capitalism and
Underdevelopment in Latin America [l967], with 40 printings of
over 120,000 copies in 9 languages. This work was first
extended to include the "Third" and "Second" ["Socialist"]
World elsewhere and then to encompass the historical and
contemporary process of capital accumulation and the structure
of the world economy and system as a whole. The main resulting
publications, World Accumulation 1492-1789 and Dependent
Accumulation and Underdevelopment  [1978], were written in
Chile before the 1973 military coup.

After then moving to Europe, for the next two decades work
concentrated on contemporary international political economy and
the present world economic crisis of capital accumulation. Its
first identification in lectures and publications in 1972 and
1973 predicted that the economic crisis would be world-wide,
that it would increasingly integrate the "socialist" economies,
and that export promotion would be widely imposed and enforced
in the Third World through military coups and other forms of
political repression. The 1973-75 recession was analyzed as no
"oil shock," but as one in a series of successive and ever
deeper recessions in this ongoing world economic crisis. Several
articles argued how that crisis would oblige "policy" makers
North and South, West and East, first to replace post war
expansive Keynesian polices with monetarist ones of
"stabilization." and then to lose control over the world --  and
a forteriori over any "national" -- economy altogether. These
lectures and articles appeared in Reflections on the  World
Economic Crisis [1981]  and in the related books Crisis: In the
World Economy and Crisis: In the Third World [1980/81]. Work on
the economic and debt crisis continued through the 1980s and
forecast the formation of US-European-Japanese economic blocs
and a still more severe next recession with titles like "Is the
Reagan Recovery Real or the Calm Before the Storm?" [1986],
"Perils of Economic Ramboism," and "Illusions of Recovery and
Threats of Deflation and Depression in the World Economy"[1987].

The analysis of the world economic crisis was also extended to
the "socialist" economies that had already been examined under
the title "Long Live Transideological Enterprise! The Socialist
Countries in the International Division of Labor" [1976]. The
theme was extended in The European Challenge [1983]. It argued
that, all ideology notwithstanding, Pan-European union is
possible and desireable, though the East would necessarily be
dependent on the West. In 1989 still before the Berlin Wall came
down, this analysis was applied to the desireability of the
European Union's extension eastward in connection with its
programmed deepening in 1992. The renewed and once again deeper
and wider world economic recession since 1989 occasioned
analysis and prevision of its dire consquences for the European
East, specifically including Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union,
whose breakup was predicted in 1991 and published [1990-94] by
UNESCO as "World Economic Interpretation of Politics in East and
West Europe," and elsewhere as "A World Economic Interpretation
of What Went Wrong in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,"
"Revolution in Eastern Europe: Lessons for Democratic Social
Movements (and for Socialists?)" etc. Social movements and their
cycles over the past two centuries were also examined with Marta
Fuentes in several "theses" on womens, environmental, peace,
peasant and other movements in the West, East and South in
"Civil Democracy: Social Movements in Recent World History" in
Transforming the Revolution written with Amin, Arrighi and
Wallerstein [1990], and in studies of the Gulf War.

HISTORICAL RESEARCH WITH CONTEMPORARY AND FUTURE IMPLICATIONS
The earlier concern with the last 500 years of "capitalist"
world economic development since 1500 has recently been extended
backwards to study the past 5,000 years -- and to search out
this longer perspective's implications for modern world history
and alternative social theory. Several articles from the early
90s are included in The World System: Five Hunderd Years or Five
Thousand? edited with Barry K. Gills [1993]. They pose a
humanocentric challenge to Eurocentrism, which argues that the
contemporary world system has a long history in which the rise
to dominance of Europe and the West are only recent - and
perhaps passing - events. The main theoretical categories are:
1. The world system itself, its structure, process and
transformation. 2. Capital accumulation as the motor force of
[world system] history. 3. Center-periphery relations in the
world, which however are not necessarily system-wide.
4. Periodic alternation between regional hegemonies and
succession rivalries, although world system-wide hegemony
appears rare or inexistent.  5. Long [and short] economic cycles
of alternating ascending ["A"] phases and descending ["B"]
phases in world system-wide economic growth and the other
abovementioned features, and their "regional" impact in Central
Asia, Latin America, and Europe. This work includes the
identification and dating of 500 year long world system wide
political economic and also ecological cycles from 3000 BC to
the 1750 AD, whose existence and dating others have largely
confirmed by others using city size data in 3 independent tests.

The far-reaching implications for the reinterpretation of modern
history and social theory are exmined in Global Development
1400-1800 [forthcoming]. It examines the world economic division
of labor and imbalances of trade settled by money and examines
how their growth promoted increased population, production,
income, productivity, money and trade as well as the development
of technology and institutions around the world. Inter-regional
comparisons and relations among the same demonstrate both the
initial predominance and the continued more rapid and greater
development of Asia, and especially of China and India, than of
any part or all of Europe in the world economy between 1400 and
1800. The "Rise of the West" is shown to be a later [temporary?]
shift of dominance from East to West, resulting from the
structure and transformation in the world economy itself, whose
whole is and must be analyzed as more than that of the sum of
its parts. This world historical evidence and its analysis
undercuts all received Eurocentric theory, which alleges that
Europe pulled itself up by its bootstraps through a unique
"European miracle" of  "rationalism" and "scientific revolution"
that developed "capitalism" in Europe and spread it to the
world. That challenges all social theory of Marx, Weber and
Tawney, through Sombart, Toynbee and Polanyi, to Braudel and
Wallerstein, which we now need to replace to accomodate world
unity in diversity.

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