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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giovanni Arrighi is Professor of Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. His main interests are in the fields of comparative and historical sociology, world-systems analysis and ...

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 ...

La via non capitalista dell'Oriente. Una discussione a partire dal volume «Adam Smith a Pechino» di Giovanni Arrighi edito da ...