This to announce that the Journal of World-Systems Research has just
published a valuable article by David Wilkinson, "World-economic
theories and problems: Quigley vs. Wallerstein vs. Central
Civilization." This essay, written originally in 1988, compares and
critiques the Wallersteinian world-systems perspective and Carroll
Quigley's theory of the evolution of civilizations from the point of
view of Wilkinson's own "Central Civilization" approach. It is relevant
to the many important issues surrounding the comparative study of
world-systems and new theories of social evolution.
Wilkinson's piece is in Volume 2, # 17 of the Journal of World-Systems
Research. The address is
http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html