influence of North American–inspired political economy writings. C. Stone (1991) saw the tradition of Marxist-Leninism, dependency theory, and anti-imperialist writings which have had a strong appeal among Third World scholars as a part of the weaknesses of the Caribbean’s claim to science. It is worth noting that much of the recent scholarly work from the Caribbean has relied less on Marxist-oriented or anti-imperialist approaches and has instead focused on a sort of economic reductionism which privileges statist and market principles in the search for the determinants of human behavior. See C. Stone (1991).