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.)

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

Table of Contents

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