Latin America's Economic Development : : Institutionalist and Structuralist Perspectives / / ed. by James H. Street, James L. Dietz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Robert J.,; Ayres, C. E.,; Dietz, James L.,; Evans, Peter,; Foxley, Alejandro,; Gereffi, Gary,; Glade, William P.,; Hirschman, Albert O.,; Love, Joseph L.,; Pazos, Felipe,; Ranis, Gustav,; Street, James H.,; Streeten, Paul,; Tokman, Víctor E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dietz, James L.,; Street, James H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Acronyms --; Preface --; Part one. An Overview --; Chapter one. Latin America's Economic Development --; Part two. Economic Ideologies, Growth, and Development --; Chapter two. The Reality of Power and the Poverty of Economic Doctrine --; Chapter three. From Growth to Basic Needs --; Part three. The Institutionalist Perspective on Development --; Chapter four. Economic Development: An Institutionalist Perspective --; Chapter five. The Ayres-Kuznets Framework and Argentine Dependency --; Part four. Latin American Structuralism --; Chapter six. Raúl Prebisch and the Origins of the Doctrine of Unequal Exchange --; Chapter seven. The Latin American Structuralists and the Institutionalists: Convergence in Development Theory --; Part five. Import Substitution Industrialization: Problems and Promise --; Chapter eight.The Import Substitution Strategy of Economic Development --; Chapter nine. Challenges and Opportunities Posed by Asia's Superexporters: Implications for Manufactured Exports from Latin America --; Chapter ten. Import Substitution Policies, Tariffs, and Competition --; Part six. Transnational Corporations and the Role of the State --; Chapter eleven. Transnational Corporations, Dependent Development, and State Policy in the Semiperiphery: A Comparison of Brazil and Mexico --; Chapter twelve. How to Divest in Latin America and Why --; Part seven. Development and the Technological Imperative --; Chapter thirteen. The Technological Frontier in Latin America: Creativity and Productivity --; Part eight. Employment, Unemployment, and the Informal Economy --; Chapter fourteen. The Employment Question and Development Policies in Latin America --; Chapter fifteen. Unequal Development and the Absorption of Labor --; Part nine. Inflation, Monetarism, and the IMF --; Chapter sixteen. Latin American Experiments in Neo-Conservative Economics --; Chapter seventeen. Values in Conflict: Developing Countries as Social Laboratories --; Part ten. The Debt Disaster: Causes and Solutions --; Chapter eighteen. Debt and Development: The Future of Latin America --; Statistical Appendix --; Contributors --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685852481; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685852481
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by James H. Street, James L. Dietz.

Presenting a major alternative to orthodox, monetarist economic analysis, this text provides a consistent institutionalist and structuralist perspective on Latin America's development problems.