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On page 109 of his 1984 book "The Politics
of the World-Economy", Wallerstein comments on the 1973
oil-crisis:
"The result of course was not only to
reallocate distribution of world surplus, but to constrain world production. (It
is for this reason that political opposition to OPEC in the core states has only
been nominal.) In a number of peripheral areas, the world economic squeeze
was felt in the form of acute famines, which cleared some rural zones of
producers, forcing many of the survivors into a marginalized existence in urban
areas. (This involves also a reduction in world agricultural production, to the
benefit of the mechanized agrobusiness of certain core
areas.)"
Marcio R L Paiva
Brasilia, Brasil
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