Peripheral Solutions to Peripheral Development: The Case of Early 20th Century Romania

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  • Manuela Boatca Free University of Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2005.399

Abstract

The article furthers the claim that many of the weaknesses of Marxist theory that constituted the starting point of critical approaches from Latin American dependency theory to world-systems analysis had been addressed in very similar terms as early as the 1900s. The focus is on intellectual debates in early twentieth-century Romania, especially as engendered by the theory of ?forms without substance? as an alternative project of modernization for the periphery and the follow-up confrontation between the socialist Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea and the Poporanist Constantin Stere on the issue of social and economic development.

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Published

2005-02-26

How to Cite

Boatca, M. (2005). Peripheral Solutions to Peripheral Development: The Case of Early 20th Century Romania. Journal of World-Systems Research, 11(1), 3–26. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2005.399

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