The ideas of Samir Amin: Theory or tautology?
总结并批判了萨米尔·阿明关于世界层面欠发达分析、外围经济体性质及中心-外围经济关系的观点，指出其逻辑不一致、同义反复且对具体经济研究有不利影响。
Abstract This paper presents an exposition and a critique of the ideas of Samir Amin. Section I summarises Amin's views on the necessity of an analysis of under development at the world level, on the nature of peripheral economies, and on the economic relationships between centre and periphery. Section II provides a critique of these ideas, in terms of both their logical consistency and their implications for research and for economic policy. Section III draws together these criticisms. The paper concludes that Samir Amin's ideas are logically inconsistent, tautological, and imprudent in the sense that they effectively pre‐empt theoretically and politically important work on specific economies, institutions and agencies. Notes Fellow of Girton College and Assistant Director of Development Studies, University of Cambridge. I should like to thank Barry Hindess, David Lehmann, Michael Lipton, Suzy Paine and John Toye for helpful comments and constructive criticism on this paper. Any errors which remain are solely the responsibility of the author.