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Title	The Modern World-System and Evolution

Creator	Wallerstein, Immanuel

Description	The concept of evolution is ambiguous. Sometimes it only means those changes that have historically ocurred. In other cases it has a more teleological aspect, as in the claim that acorns evolve into oaks. In that meaning, the end result is the normal outcome of a pattern inscribed in the inner structure of the entity under discussion... I consider it important to distinguish three processes in the historical life of of any system: its genesis; its relatively long period of normal functioning; and its demise (the result of birfurcation), which can also be thought of as the period of transition to a new historical system or systems. It is only about the period of normal functioning that it seems useful to apply the term of evolution, and it is to this period that I shall restrict the discussion.

Publisher	University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

Date	1995-08-25

Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Format	application/pdf

Identifier	http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/46 10.5195/jwsr.1995.46

Source	Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 1, Issue 1, 1995; 512-522 1076-156X

Language	eng

Relation	http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/46/58

Rights	Copyright (c) 2015 Immanuel Wallerstein https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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