Gunder Frank
| Andre Gunder Frank | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 24, 1929 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | April 25, 2005 (aged 76) Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| Residence | Germany, United States, Chile, the Netherlands |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Known for | Contributions to world-systems theory |
| Spouse(s) | Marta Fuentes, Nancy Howell, Alison Candela |
| Website | rrojasdatabank |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology, Economics |
| Institutions | University of Chile, University of Amsterdam, University of East Anglia |
| Thesis | Growth and Productivity in Ukrainian Agriculture from 1928 to 1955 (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | Milton Friedman |
Andre Gunder Frank (February 24, 1929 – April 23, 2005) was a German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984. He employed some Marxian concepts on political economy, but rejected Marx's stages of history, and economic history generally.
Frank was born in Germany to Jewish parents, pacifist writer Leonhard Frank and his second wife Elena Maqenne Penswehr, but his family fled the country when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor. Frank received schooling in several places in Switzerland, where his family settled, until they emigrated to the United States in 1941. Frank's undergraduate studies were at Swarthmore College. He earned his Ph.D. in economics in 1957 at the University of Chicago. His doctorate was a study of Soviet agriculture entitled Growth and Productivity in Ukrainian Agriculture from 1928 to 1955. Ironically, his dissertation supervisor was Milton Friedman, a man whose laissez faire approach to economics Frank would later harshly criticize.
Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s Frank taught at American universities. In 1962 he moved to Latin America, inaugurating a remarkable period of travel that confirmed his peripatetic tendencies. His most notable work during this time was his stint as Professor of Sociology and Economics at the University of Chile, where he was involved in reforms under the government of Salvador Allende. After Allende's government was toppled by a coup d'état in 1973, Frank fled to Europe, where he occupied a series of university positions. From 1981 until his retirement in 1994 he was professor in developmental economy at the University of Amsterdam.
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