André Gunder Frank

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Andreas (André Gunder) Frank (born February 24, 1929 in Berlin ; † April 23, 2005 in Luxembourg ) was a German-born economist.

Life

Andreas Frank is the son of the writer Leonhard Frank and his second wife Elena Maqenne Penswehr. In 1933 he and his parents had to leave Germany as a result of the Nazi seizure of power. First the family went to Switzerland, later to the USA.

There he studied economics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and showed great inclinations for the teaching of John Maynard Keynes . At the University of Chicago , where he received his doctorate in 1957 , one of his professors was the monetarist Milton Friedman . After an assistant professorship in Michigan, he went on extensive journeys through Africa and Latin America in 1961 , developing a radical theory of underdevelopment and thereby becoming a founder of the dependency theory . In Chile he met his wife Marta Fuentes.

He has taught at the University of Brasília and in Mexico. Because of his radical political stance, he received an entry ban from the USA in 1965, which was only overridden in 1979. In Canada he was even considered a threat to “national security”, but in 1966 he was given a visiting professorship in Montreal . However, no one wanted to see him in Cuba, and the GDR government didn't have much sympathy for him either.

From 1968 he published many papers on the "development of underdevelopment" in Chile. When the military under Augusto Pinochet fled, he and his family fled to West Berlin , Frankfurt am Main and Munich . He worked as a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for research into the living conditions of the scientific and technical world in Starnberg and published ten books and essays. But he did not find a permanent position.

In 1978 he went to Norwich , England , as a professor , and then to Amsterdam . After his wife died, he moved to Toronto and married a childhood friend who separated from him again. Then he wrote the work ReOrient as an economic history with Asia as a focus. In 1999 in Miami he found a new partner and traveled again. He died in Luxembourg in April 2005 of cancer.

Works

  • US-Brazil Economic Relations - A Case Study of American Imperialism, The Radical Education Project, Ann Arbor 1963
  • Hugo Blanco Must Not Die, University of Toronto, 1967
  • Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, Frankfurt, European Publishing House, 1968
  • Latin America. Underdevelopment or revolution. Offenbach., Socialist Office., 1969.
  • Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution - Essays on the Development of Underdevelopment and Immediate Enemy, MR Press, New York 1969
  • et al., Economia politica del subdesarrollo en America Latina, 1 ° edicion, Buenos Aires Ediciones Signos SRL 1970
  • Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment of Sociology, London Pluto Press 1971
  • Rag bourgeoisie: rag development; dependence, class, and politics in Latin America. Monthly Review Press 1972, ISBN 0-85345-235-0
  • Latin America: Development of Underdevelopment, Wagenbach 1975
  • On capitalist underdevelopment, Oxford University Press Bombay 1975 ISBN 0-19-560475-X
  • Economic Genocide in Chile. Monetarist Theory Versus Humanity. Two Open Letters to Arnold Harberger and Milton Friedman. Spokesman Books 1976
  • World economy in crisis. Poverty in the north, impoverishment in the south Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1978 ISBN 3-499-14352-6
  • Dependent Accumulation & Underdevelopment, Macmillan London 1978, ISBN 0-333-23951-2
  • Dependent accumulation and underdevelopment. Frankfurt / M. Suhrkamp Verlag 1980
  • Crisis: In the World Economy, Holmes & Meier, NY, 1980 ISBN 0-8419-0583-5
  • The European challenge. Peace and work through European relaxation. Stuttgart, Alektor-Verlag der ESG 1983
  • et al., Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World-System, Monthly Review, NY, 1990 ISBN 0-85345-808-1
  • The centrality of Central Asia. Amsterdam, VU University Press 1992
  • et al., Critique of Bourgeois Anti-Imperialism. Development of underdevelopment. Eight analyzes on the new theory of revolution in Latin America, Wagenbach Rotbuch 15
  • et al., The Gulf War and the New World Order, Notebooks for Study and Research, # 14, International Institute for Research and Education, Amsterdam
  • Frank, Andre G: ReOrient . Global Economy in the Asian Age. ProMedia, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85371-404-1 .
  • Orientation in the world system. From the New World to the Middle Kingdom. Vienna, Promedia 2005, ISBN 3-85371-238-X .

Literature and criticism

  • Mattersburger Kreis for Development Policy at the Austrian Universities (Ed.); Karin Fischer, Christof Parnreiter (Red.): What remains of the development of underdevelopment? In memoriam: Andre Gunder Frank . Mandelbaum-Verlag, Vienna 2006. ISBN 978-385-47618-7-7 .
  • Barry Gills: In Memoriam: André Gunder Frank (24 February 1929 to 23 April 2005). In: Globalizations , Vol. 2, No. 1 (May 2005), pp. 1-4.
  • Alberto Castrillón Mora: In memoriam. André Gunder Frank (1929-2005) . In: Revista de Economía Institucional , Vol. 7 (2005), pp. 273-278
  • Ricardo Duchesne : Between Sinocentrism and Eurocentrism: Debating AG Frank's Re-Orient . In: Science & Society , Vol. 65 (2001/2002), No. 4, pp. 428-463.
  • Michael von Hauff: Frank, Andre Gunder. In: Harald Hagemann , Claus-Dieter Krohn (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking economic emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Adler – Lehmann. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11284-X , pp. 159-162.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg G. Iggers and Q. Edward Wang (Eds.): A Global History of Modern Historiography , Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2008, p. 293.
personal data
SURNAME Frank, André Gunder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Andreas; Frank, Andreas Andre Gunder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-born economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2005
Place of death Luxembourg