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On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraordinarily skewed distribution system, substituting medium-run threats for short-term threats for the majority of the world's population, particularly the 50 to 80 percent at the bottom.

Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein

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Born: September 28, 1930

Died: August 31, 2019 (aged 88)

Bio: Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein was an American sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst, arguably best known for his development of the general approach in sociology which led to the emergence of his World-System Theory.

Known for:

The Modern World-System, vol. I (1974)
World-systems Analysis: An Introduction (2004)
The Capitalist World-Economy (1979)
The Modern World-System IV (2011)

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