Latin America's Economic Development : : Institutionalist and Structuralist Perspectives / / 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.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023] ©1988 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | Presenting a major alternative to orthodox, monetarist economic analysis, this text provides a consistent institutionalist and structuralist perspective on Latin America's development problems. |
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. |