Samir Amin

Samir Amin (born the September 3rd 1931) is a political author Egyptian. He currently lives with Dakar with the Senegal.

Amin was born with the Cairo. His/her parents were both doctors (his/her father was Egyptian and its French mother). It passed its childhood and its adolescence to Port-Saïd where it followed the courses of a French school and obtained its baccalaureat in 1947. From 1947 to 1957, he studies in Paris, and takes down a diploma of political sciences (1952) before his diploma in statistics (1956) and economy (1957). In its autobiography intellectual Itinéraire (1990) it writes that in order to spend a substantial time in " action militante" it could devote only one minimum of work to the preparation of its university examinations.

On its arrival in Paris, Amin joined the French Communist party (PCF), but it will distanciera Soviet Marxisme later and joins during a certain time circles Maoïste Étudiants Anticolonialists . In 1957 He presented his thesis, supervised by François Perroux among others, originally titled The origins off underdevelopment - capitalist accumulation one has off world scale goal retitled structural The effects the international integration off precapitalist economies. With theoretical study off the mechanism which creates so-called underdeveloped economies .

After finishing his thesis, Amin went back to Cairo, where He was from 1957 to 1960 research officer off Études of the Organization of Economic development . Subsequently Amin Cairo left, to become adviser in the Ministry off Planning in Bamako (Mali) from 1960 to 1963. In 1963 He was offered has fellowship At the African Institut of Economic development and Planning (IDEP). Until 1970 He worked there ace well ace being has professor At the university off Poitiers, Dakar and Paris (off Paris VIII, Vincennes). In 1970 He became has chief off the IDEP, which He managed until 1980. In 1980 Amin left the IDEP and became has director off the Third World Forum in Dakar.

He has written more than 30 books including Imperialism & Unequal Development , Specters off Capitalism: With Criticism off Current Intellectual Fashions , Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Total Disorder and Liberal The Virus . -->

Principal books of Samir Amin

(1957): Effects structural of international integration of the economies precapitalists. A theoretical study of the mechanism which generated the éonomies known as underdeveloped (thesis)
(1964): Egypt nassérienne
(1965): Three African experiments of development: Mali, Guinea and Ghana
(1966): Economy of the Maghreb, 2 flights.
(1967): The development of capitalism in Ivory Coast
(1969): The Senegalese business world
(1969): The Class struggle in Africa
(1970): The modern Maghreb
(1970): Accumulation on a worldwide scale
(1970, with C. Coquery-Vidrovitch): Economic history of Congo 1880-1968
(1971): West Africa blocked
(1973): The unequal development
(1973): The unequal exchange and the law of the value
(1973) Neocolonialism in West Africa
(1974, with K. Vergopoulos): The country question and capitalism
(1975, with A. Faire, Mr. Hussein and G. Massiah): The crisis of L `imperialism
(1976): Imperialism and the unequal development
(1976): The Arab nation
(1977): The law of the value and historical materialism
(1979): Classify and nation in the history and the contemporary crisis * (1980): Contemporary Arab economy
(1981): Future of the Maoism
(1982, with G. Arrighi, A.G. Frank und I. Wallerstein): The crisis, which crisis?
(1982): Iraq and Syria 1960 - 1980
(1984): Transforming the world-economy? : nine critical essays one the new international economic order.
(1985): The disconnection
(1988): The eurocentrism
(1988, with F. Yachir): The Mediterranean in the world system
(1988): Imperialism and underdevelopment in Africa (edition improved of 1976)
(1989): The bankruptcy of the development in Africa and in the third world]
(1990) Transforming the revolution: social movements and the world system
(1990): Intellectual route; glances over the half-century 1945-90
(1991, with G. Arrighi, A.G. Frank and I. Wallerstein): The great tumult
(1991): Empire of chaos
(1991): Strategic issues in the Mediterranean
(1994): Ethnos group with the attack of the nations
(1995): The capitalist management of the crisis
(1996): Challenges of universalization
(1997): Critical of the air of time
(1999): Spectra off capitalism: has critical off current intellectual fashions
(2000): Hegemonism of the United States and the obliteration of the European project
(2002): Universalization, comprehendre to act
(2003): Obsolescent Capitalism
(2004): Liberal The Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization off the World
(2005 with Ali El Kenz) Europe and the Arab world; patterns and prospective customers for the new relationship
(2006) US Beyond Hegemony: Assessing the Prospects for has Multipolar World

See too

Theory of the dependence

Some works of Samir Amin available on line

The American Ideology
Third World Forum: Year interview with Samir Amin
Imperialism and Globalization
Empire off chaos challenged: year interview with Samir Amin
Maldevelopment: Does Anatomy off have total failure
U.S. Imperialism, Europe, and the Middle East
India, has Great Power?
Imperialism and Globalization
World Poverty, Pauperization & Capital Accumulation
U.S. Hegemony and the Response to Terror
Empire and Multitude
off has Note one the Death Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005)
The Political Economy off the Twentieth Century
Africa: living room one the fringe
The lesson off Kampuchea

Writings devoted to Samir Amin

Aidan Forster-Casing: The Empirical Samir Amin, in S. Amin: The Arab Economy Today, London 1982, pp. 1 - 40
Duru Tobi: One Amin' S Concepts - autocentric/blocked development in Historical Prospects, in: Economic Papers (Warsaw), NR. 15,1987, pp. 143 - 163
Fouhad Nohra: Theories of world capitalism. Paris 1997
Gerald Mr. Meier, Dudley Seers (eds.): Pioneers in Development. Oxford 1984

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