Giovanni Arrighi
Giovanni Arrighi giving a lecture at the Faculty of Humanities atRhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (18 April 2007)
Born	(1937-07-07)7 July 1937 Milan,Kingdom of Italy
Died	18 June 2009(2009-06-18) (aged 71) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	Bocconi University
Known for	Political Economy Historical Sociology
Scientific career
Fields	Political economy,Historical sociology,International relations
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Binghamton University

Giovanni Arrighi (7 July 1937 – 18 June 2009) was an Italianeconomist,sociologist andworld-systems analyst, from 1998 aProfessor of Sociology atJohns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages.

Arrighi was born inMilan,Italy in 1937. He received hisLaurea ineconomics from theBocconi University in 1960. Arrighi began his career teaching at theUniversity College of Rhodesia (nowZimbabwe) and later at theUniversity College of Dar es Salaam inTanzania,^[1] where he developed arguments about how thelabor supply and labor resistance affected the development ofcolonialism andnational liberation movements, and where he metImmanuel Wallerstein with whom he late collaborated on a number of research projects. After returning to Italy in 1969, Arrighi and others formed the "Gruppo Gramsci" in 1971. In 1979 Arrighi joined Wallerstein andTerence Hopkins as a professor of sociology at theFernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations atBinghamton University. It was during this time that the Fernand Braudel Center became known as the main center ofworld-systems analysis, attracting scholars from all over the world.^{[citation needed]}

His trilogy on the origins and transformations ofglobal capitalism began in 1994 with a book that reinterpreted the evolution of capitalism,The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times. The book was published in at least ten languages. Giovanni completed a second edition ofThe Long Twentieth Century in 2009. In 1999, he publishedChaos and Governance in the Modern World System withBeverly Silver, and in 2007, he publishedAdam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century, comparing Western and East Asian economic development and exploringChina’s rise as an economicworld power.^{[citation needed]}

Although in many ways intellectually close toImmanuel Wallerstein, Arrighi tends to ascribe greater significance to the recent shift in economic power toEast Asia. He also emphasized his debt toAdam Smith,Max Weber,Karl Marx,Antonio Gramsci,Karl Polanyi andJoseph Schumpeter.^{[citation needed]}

Arrighi died in his home in Baltimore on 18 June 2009. He had been diagnosed withcancer in July 2008. His widow and collaborator is ProfessorBeverly Silver.^{[citation needed]}

A retrospective interview byDavid Harvey on his intellectual trajectory,The Winding Paths of Capital, was published in the March/April 2009 issue ofNew Left Review.

Monographs

• 1967The Political Economy of Rhodesia
• 1973Essays on the Political Economy of Africa
• 1978Geometry of Imperialism
• 1982Dynamics of Global Crisis (withSamir Amin,Andre Gunder Frank andImmanuel Wallerstein)
• 1985Semiperipheral Development: The Politics of Southern Europe in the Twentieth Century
• 1989Antisystemic Movements
• 1990Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World System (withSamir Amin,Andre Gunder Frank andImmanuel Wallerstein)
• 1994The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
• 1999Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (withBeverly J. Silver)
• 2003The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 And 50 Year Perspectives
• 2007Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century

Journal articles and book chapters since 2001

• "Workers North and South" (with B.J. Silver) in C. Leys and L. Panich, eds.,The Socialist Register 2001. London: The Merlin Press, 2000. Reprinted (abridged) inL. Amoore, ed.,The Global Resistance Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
• "Braudel, Capitalism and the New Economic SociologyArchived 2012-03-20 at theWayback Machine",Review, XXIV, 1, 2001.
• "Capitalist development in World-historical Perspective", (withJason W. Moore). In R. Albritton, M. Itoh, R. Westra, A. Zuege, (eds.),Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises and Globalization. London: Macmillan, 2001.
• "Capitalism and World Dis(order)" (with B. J. Silver),Review of International Studies, XXVII, 2001.
• "Global Capitalism and the Persistence of the North-South Divide",Science and Society, LXIV, 4, 2001.
• "The African crisis: world systemic and regional aspects".New Left Review.II (15). New Left Review. May–June 2002.
• "Lineages of Empire".Historical Materialism 10, 3, 2002. Reprinted In G. Balakrishnan, ed.,Debating Empire. London and New York: Verso, 2003.
• "Industrial Convergence, Globalization, and the Persistence of the North-South Divide".Studies in Comparative International Development 38: 1 (2003) (with B.J. Silver and B.D. Brewer).
• "Response".Studies in Comparative International Development 38: 1 (2003) (with B.J. Silver and B.D. Brewer).
• "The social and political economy of global turbulence".New Left Review.II (20). New Left Review. March–April 2003.
• "Kindai Sekai Shisutem no Keisei to Henyou ni okeru Hegemonii Kokka no Yakuwari" ("The Role of Hegemonic States in the Formation and Transitions of the Modern World-System"). In T. Matsuda and S. Akita, eds.,Hegemonii Kokka to Sekai Shisutem (Hegemonic States and the Modern World-System). Tokyo: Yamakawa Publishing Company, 2002.
• "Historical Capitalism East and West" (with P.K. Hui, H. Hung, and M. Selden). In G. Arrighi, T. Hamashita and M. Selden, eds.,The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.
• "Global Inequalities and the Legacy of Dependency Theory".Radical Philosophy Review 5: 1-2 (2002/2003).
• "Polanyi’s ‘Double Movement’: The Belles Epoques of British and US Hegemony Compared" (with B.J. Silver).Politics and Society 31: 2 (2003).
• "Il lungo XX secolo. Una replica".Contemporanea 6:4 (2003).
• "Poza hegemoniami zachodnimi" (with I. Ahmad and M. Shih).Lewa Noga 15 (2003).
• "Hegemony and Antisystemic Movements". In I. Wallerstein, ed.,The Modern World-System in the Longue Duree. Boulder, Co: {{Paradigm Publishers, 2004
• "Globalization in World-Systems Perspective". In R. Appelbaum and W. Robinson, eds.,Critical Globalization Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 2005.
• "Hegemony unraveling–1"(PDF).New Left Review.II (32). New Left Review. March–April 2005. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2022-02-14.
• "Hegemony unraveling–2"(PDF).New Left Review.II (33). New Left Review. May–June 2005. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2021-05-16.
• "Rough Road to Empire". In F. Tabak, ed.,Allies as Rivals: The U.S., Europe, and Japan in a Changing World-System. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Press, 2005.
• "States, Markets and Capitalism, East and West". In M. Miller, ed.,Worlds of Capitalism. Institutions, Economic Performance, and Governance in the Era of Globalization. London: Routledge, 2005
• "Industrial Convergence and the Persistence of the North-South Industrial Divide: A Rejoinder" (with Beverly J. Silver and Benjamin D. Brewer).Studies in Comparative International Development, Summer 2005, in press.
• "The world economy and the Cold War, 1970–1990".In Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume 3: Endings(pp. 23–44). Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. 2010.ISBN 978-0-521-83721-7.

• World-systems theory

• Johns Hopkins homepage.Archived July 19, 2011, at theWayback Machine.
• Video on Giovanni Arrighi, David Harvey, and Joel Andreas, on Arrighi'sAdam Smith in Beijing (2008)
• Article on Giovanni Arrighi, In memoriam, by Tom Reifer
• Giovanni Arrighi: Systemic Cycles of Accumulation, Hegemonic Transitions, and the Rise of China by William I. Robinson

• 1937 births
• Writers from Milan
• Bocconi University alumni
• Italian economists
• Italian sociologists
• Imperialism studies
• World system scholars
• 2009 deaths
• Writers about globalization
• Binghamton University faculty
• Academic staff of the University of Zimbabwe
• Max Weber scholars

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