Samir Amin
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Samir Amin was an influential Egyptian-French Marxist economist and political theorist known for his analyses of global capitalism, underdevelopment, and the structural inequalities between the Global North and South.
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| Samir Amin canonical | 5 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Samir Amin Context triple: [dependency theory, associatedWith, Samir Amin]
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A.
Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein was an American sociologist and economic historian best known for developing world-systems theory, which analyzes global history and capitalism as an interconnected world economy.
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B.
Nicos Poulantzas
Nicos Poulantzas was a Greek-French Marxist political sociologist and theorist best known for his influential analyses of the capitalist state, class structure, and authoritarianism within the tradition of Western Marxism.
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C.
Alain Touraine
Alain Touraine was a prominent French sociologist known for his influential work on social movements, modernity, and the sociology of action.
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D.
Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel was a prominent Belgian Marxist economist, Trotskyist theorist, and leading figure in the postwar international socialist movement.
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E.
Jean Drèze
Jean Drèze is a development economist known for his influential work on poverty, hunger, and social policy in India, including contributions to the Right to Food campaign and landmark social welfare programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samir Amin Target entity description: Samir Amin was an influential Egyptian-French Marxist economist and political theorist known for his analyses of global capitalism, underdevelopment, and the structural inequalities between the Global North and South.
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A.
Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein was an American sociologist and economic historian best known for developing world-systems theory, which analyzes global history and capitalism as an interconnected world economy.
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B.
Nicos Poulantzas
Nicos Poulantzas was a Greek-French Marxist political sociologist and theorist best known for his influential analyses of the capitalist state, class structure, and authoritarianism within the tradition of Western Marxism.
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C.
Alain Touraine
Alain Touraine was a prominent French sociologist known for his influential work on social movements, modernity, and the sociology of action.
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D.
Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel was a prominent Belgian Marxist economist, Trotskyist theorist, and leading figure in the postwar international socialist movement.
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E.
Jean Drèze
Jean Drèze is a development economist known for his influential work on poverty, hunger, and social policy in India, including contributions to the Right to Food campaign and landmark social welfare programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Marxist theorist
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economist ⓘ human ⓘ political scientist ⓘ public intellectual ⓘ |
| academicDegree | doctorate in economics ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Egypt
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France ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Egypt ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-09-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-08-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Lycée Français du Caire
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Sciences Po ⓘ University of Paris ⓘ |
| employer |
Institut Africain de Développement Économique et de Planification
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United Nations ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Egyptian ⓘ |
| familyName | Amin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Marxist theory
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development studies ⓘ economics ⓘ global political economy ⓘ international relations ⓘ political economy ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Global North–South relations
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linked to:
North–South relations
Global South ⓘ
linked to:
global South
capitalist world-system ⓘ underdevelopment in peripheral economies ⓘ |
| fullName | Samir Amin ⓘ |
| givenName | Samir ⓘ |
| ideology |
Marxism
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anti-imperialism ⓘ socialism ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary dependency theorists
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global justice movements ⓘ scholars of world-systems theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Karl Marx
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Mao Zedong ⓘ Vladimir Lenin ⓘ dependency theorists ⓘ |
| knownFor |
analyses of global capitalism
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critiques of neoliberal globalization ⓘ studies of North–South structural inequalities ⓘ theories of underdevelopment ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Arabic
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English ⓘ French ⓘ |
| movement |
Marxism
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Third Worldism ⓘ
linked to:
Third World
anti-imperialism ⓘ dependency theory ⓘ world-systems analysis ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
analysis of global value transfers from periphery to center
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center–periphery model of global capitalism ⓘ
linked to:
center–periphery model of the world economy
concept of unequal exchange ⓘ critique of Eurocentrism ⓘ theory of delinking ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Accumulation on a World Scale
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Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World ⓘ Eurocentrism ⓘ Imperialism and Unequal Development ⓘ Unequal Development ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cairo ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning
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director of the Third World Forum ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Dakar
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Paris ⓘ |
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