Must think about how countries are integrated into world system. Are consequences for policy and applied work. Wallerstein attempt to address weaknesses of Frank s dependency work by incorporating considerations of mode of production. Both argue that current world system capitalism roots go back 5000 yr or more, to Babylonia. At periphery is coerced labor.
Firms meet in market to exchange goods for profit.
Not anthropological examinations. Doesn t reflect true dynamics of world system. Anthros now aware of larger processes that transcend and transform local populations. Wolf and Roseberry followed Rosa Luxembourg. Capitalism reproduces self not only through internal ability to monopolize means of production, but by working arrangements with other means of production and surpluses extracted through other means.