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The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? by André Gunder Frank
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“The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), in which only the few can win and the many must lose. And so it has been for millennia, thanks to the world system's unequal structure and uneven process, which Wallerstein helps us identify.”
― André Gunder Frank, The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?

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