Samir Amin

Samir Amin
Samir Amin on the Eurocrisis at the 2012 Subversive Festival in Zagreb
Born(1931-09-03)3 September 1931
Cairo (Kingdom of EgyptEdit this on Wikidata
Died12 August 2018(2018-08-12) (aged 86)
14th arrondissement of Paris (France) Edit this on Wikidata
Resting placePère Lachaise Cemetery Edit this on Wikidata
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Samir Amin (Arabic: سمير أمين) (3 September 1931 – 12 August 2018) was an Egyptian-French Marxian economist,[1] political scientist and world-systems analyst. He is noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 1988[2] and considered a pioneer of Dependency Theory.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference rp was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "A Brief Biography of Samir Amin". Monthly Review, Vol. 44, Issue 4, September 1992. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018.
  3. ^ Kvangraven, I. H. (2017). A Dependency Pioneer: Samir Amin. p. 12.