Study Of Wallerstein's Capital Accumulation Theory

What is the motive of modern world-system? This is the first question the world-system scholars must answer.Immanuel Wallerstein,the founder of world-system theory,says endless capital accumulation is the basic motivation of Capitalist production and development of World-System.After Wallertein,other scholars,such as Samir Amin,Gunder Frank and so on,also hold this premise of the world-system theory.The study of Wallerstein capital accumulation help us understand the modern World-System theory and the interpretation of the historical process of capitalism of the 20th century western Marxist scholars,and analyze the international situation.This thesis aims to review Wallerstein capital accumulation theory.'Holism'and 'Fusion'are the two main features of Wallerstein capital accumulation theory.Holism embodies the innovation of analytical method,this is the analysis of capital accumulation under the framework of modern world-system.Wallerstein's capital accumulation theory give us a holistic view.The impact force of this theory to make us out of the unilateral pitfalls,this is problems analysed in a single country,are stronger than other developmental theories.Fusion is the embodiments of the fusion and transcendence.In research method,Wallerstein absorbed and drew upon fruits of the analyzing method of longue duree and extensiveness from Annales school.In the theoretical origin,absorbing the quintessence of Max' capital accumulation theory, critically inheriting Luxemborg's third market theory and dependency theory,Wallerstein's realize the transcendence of the former theories.Except for the preface and conclusion,this thesis is divided into three parts.The first part introduces the Wallerstein capital accumulation.The second analyses the formation and development of Wallerstein's accumulation theory.The third do the comparative studies of Wallerstein capital accumulation theory.