The Italian scholar of political economy and sociology Giovanni Arrighi, who has died of cancer aged 71, was an outstanding teacher and mentor. He will be best remembered for his trilogy of works ...

Building on an analysis of the dissenting movements to have emerged since the rise of modern capitalism, Anti-Systemic Movements uncovers an international groundswell of resistance still vitally ...

Bit by bit we will understand China. And then we will know we are at least 100 years behind them, not 30, as someone recently suggested. Africa, in terms of political economy configurations, is, in my ...

Giovanni Arrighi, the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Sociology and renowned authority in the fields of world systems analysis and historical sociology, has died after a year-long battle with ...

Michael Barratt Brown writes: Giovanni Arrighi (obituary, 9 October) and I disagreed often on the details of the history of capitalism, but never on the principle that our task was to support all ...