# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andre-gunder-frank
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:24:25.881Z

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description: "André Gunder Frank, born Andreas Frank; was a German-American sociologist and economic historian 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."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump