"I'm a heretic in terms of traditional social sciences" (From an interview)

Abstract

Interview with Professor Immanuel Wallerstein, many years' director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Studies of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations at the Binghamton University, a branch of the State University of New York. He is worldrenowned for analyses of historical systems, particularly the emergence and development of the capitalist worldeconomy. His fundamental research ushered in a new stage in studying the development and transformation of the global human community.