Immanuel Wallerstein, the chief proponent of world-systems theory, agrees with dependency theorists that industrial nations prosper through the economic domination and exploitation of nonindustrial peoples.

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Wallerstein's world-systems theory argues that the global capitalist system is structured in a way that benefits core, industrialized nations at the expense of peripheral, non-industrialized nations. This includes economic domination and exploitation.

Immanuel Wallerstein, the Chief Proponent of World-Systems Theory, Agrees with Dependency