ABSTRACT
There is a complementarity between the work of Andre Gunder Frank 1 and that of recent French economic anthropology. Frank presents an analysis which explores the relations of dependence and exploitation between metropolitan centres and their satellites. The French anthropologists examine similar problems in terms of relations between modes of production, looking at the links between pre- and non-capitalist modes, and between those and capitalism itself. In turn, the whole discussion revolves around the question of the applicability of economic concepts deriving from capitalism to economic systems whose characteristics are different from or in opposition to the capitalist mode.
