their own narrow interests at the expense of national economic progress.
// "Dependency" theorists, on the other hand, extend Marx's class-analytic framework the level of the international economy. According to these Marxists the global system is stratified into an area of autonomous self-sustaining growth, the"core" or First World, and a region of attenuated inhibited growth. the"periphery or Third World. International capitalism, in this view, extracts surplus value from the periphery and concentrates it in the core, just as capitalists exploit workers within a single country. The principal questions here focus on the mechanisms of exploitation whether they be multinational corporations. international financial markets and organizations, or trade--and the appropriate strategies for stimulating autonomous growth and development in the periphery