to get richer. Lastly, the single-society assumption opposes the multiple-society assumption and includes looking at the world as a whole.

Background

Immanuel Wallerstein has developed the best-known version of world-systems analysis, beginning in the 1970s. Wallerstein traces the rise of the capitalist world-economy from the "long" 16th century (c. 1450-1640). The rise of capitalism, in his view, was an accidental outcome of the protracted crisis

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