1. Childhood 2. A Student in Paris 3. Cairo 1957-1960 4. Parisian Interlude, January-September 1960 5. Bamako 1960-1963 6. Professor of Political Economy 1963-1970 7. The Political Context 1960-1998 8. Director of the Institute for Economic Planning and Development (IDEP) 1970-1980 9. The Third World Forum 10. Towards a Common Front of the World's Peoples?
A political autobiography from one of the 20th Century's most prominent radical intellectuals that also serves as a primer on Samir Amin's influential theory and historical-political analysis. This memoir provides an insight into how radical movements have evolved in response to global capitalism since the 1940s.
Samir Amin was born in Egypt in 1931 and pursued his higher education in Paris in the fields of politics, statistics and economics. He has a worldwide reputation as one of the foremost radical thinkers of our generation on issues arising out of the changing nature of capitalism, North-South relations, and development theory. Among his many institutional roles, he has been Director of IDEP (the United Nations African Institute for Planning) from 1970 to 1980; the Director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal; and a co-founder of the World Forum for Alternatives. He is the author of numerous books in French and Arabic, many of which have been translated into a large number of other languages, including a dozen or more in English. His most famous works are Accumulation on a World Scale and Unequal Development. Among his recent books in English are Re-reading the Post-War World: An Intellectual Itinerary (1994) and Empire of Chaos (1993).
This world-class economist is a serious Nobel Prize contender.
*Economic Development and Cultural Change*
Samir Amin needs no introduction...he always remains apposite and,
to the mind of this particular left-thinking academic, accurate,
prescient, and to the point.
*John Saul, African Studies Review*
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