Andre Gunder Frank

Biography Born Andreas Frank Frank was educated in various schools in Switzerland before the family emigrated to the United States in 1941. The young Frank participated without much success in track and field competitions, earning the ironic nickname "Gunder" (after the Swedish running champion Gunder Hägg) from his high-school teammates. Frank later simplified his first name to "Andre" and adopted "Gunder" as a middle name.

In the United States, Frank attended Swarthmore College (which had been founded as a Quaker institution), gaining an economics degree in 1950. He then moved to the University of Chicago as a graduate student in the economics department, but he was forced out after only one year. Frank received a master's degree in economics from the University of Michigan and later spent some time among the beatniks in San Francisco, before returning to Chicago in 1955 as a research assistant in Bert Hoselitz's Center for Economic Development and Cultural Change (CEDCC). (1967) Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. Monthly Review Press. (1969) Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution. Monthly Review Press. (1971) Lumpenburguesía : Lumpendesarrollo. México : Era. (Spanish) (1972) Lumpenbourgeoisie, Lumpendevelopment. Monthly Review Press. (tr. Marion Davis Berdecio) (1975) On Capitalist Underdevelopment. Bombay: Oxford University Press. (1976) Economic Genocide in Chile. Equilibrium on the point of a bayonet. Nottingham, UK: Spokesman. (1978) World Accumulation, 1492–1789. Monthly Review Press. (1978) Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment. Monthly Review Press. (1979) Mexican Agriculture 1521-1630: Transformation of the Mode of Production. Cambridge University Press. (1980) Crisis: In the World Economy. New York: Holmes & Meier. (1981) Crisis: In the Third World. New York: Holmes & Meier. (1981) Reflections on the World Economic Crisis. Monthly Review Press. (1982) Dynamics of Global Crisis, with S. Amin, G. Arrighi and I. Wallerstein. Monthly Review Press. (1983) The European Challenge. Nottingham, UK: Spokesman. (1984) Critique and Anti-Critique. New York: Praeger. (1996) The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? with Barry K. Gills, Routledge. (1998) ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley: University of California Press. (2013) ReOrienting the 19th Century: Global Economy in the Continuing Asian Age, with Robert A. Denemark, Paradigm Publishers.

Journal articles (1958) "General Productivity in Soviet Agriculture and Industry," Journal of Political Economy (1958) "Goal Ambiguity and Conflicting Standards: An approach to the study of organization," Human Organization (1977) "On so-called primitive accumulation," Dialectical Anthropology 2, 87 (1977) "Long Live Transideological Enterprise: the socialist economies in the capitalist international division of labor," Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center (1989) "Ten Theses on Social Movements," with M. Fuentes, World Development (1990) "Theoretical Introduction to Five Thousand Years of World System History," Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center (1992) "Third World War: A Political Economy of the Gulf War and New World Order," Third World Quarterly 13(2). (1994) "Is Real World Socialism Possible?," Democracy & Nature, Vol.2, No.3, pp. 152–175

Book chapters (1990) "Civil Democracy, Social Movements in World History," with M. Fuentes. In Amin et al., Transforming the Revolution. (1990) "Revolution in Eastern Europe: Lessons for democratic socialist movements (and socialists)." In Tabb, ed., Future of Socialism. (1992) "The Underdevelopment of Development," with M.F. Frank. In Savoie, D.J. and I. Brecher, eds., Equity and Efficiency in Economic Development. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. (2001) "The Global Economy, AD 1400-1800: Comparisons and Relations." In Suneja, V., ed., Understanding Business: Markets. A Multidimensional Approach to the Market Economy. London: Routledge.