Hi, Chris, hi, Carl, sure we're all out there (or is it here?).
Shall we debate the hyphen?
If you want to know GA's position on the hyphen, it seems to me
the best place to look is his article with J Drangel on the
semi-periphery (no problem with that hyphen). One can guess that
in omitting the world system hyphen from LONG 20th C, GA was
trying to reach a larger audience than the hyphenated crowd
without making a big deal of it. But you could ask him.
Everybody who writes seriously about capitalism, its
deepening and its expansion, sees both continuity and
transformation. The arguments are over how much to
emphasize each of these features. What I treasure about
GA's work is the analysis of the historical specificities
of different periods/incarnations/regimes-of-accumulation.
My own take is that this serves more as a fleshing out of
the w-s version of modern world history than as an alternative
w s version. In Kuhnian language, it is "normal science"
of the very highest quality.
w