UID:
edocfu_9961059945002883
Format:
1 online resource (280 p.)
ISBN:
9781685852481
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Tables and Figures --
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Acronyms --
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Preface --
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Part one. An Overview --
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Chapter one. Latin America's Economic Development --
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Part two. Economic Ideologies, Growth, and Development --
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Chapter two. The Reality of Power and the Poverty of Economic Doctrine --
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Chapter three. From Growth to Basic Needs --
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Part three. The Institutionalist Perspective on Development --
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Chapter four. Economic Development: An Institutionalist Perspective --
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Chapter five. The Ayres-Kuznets Framework and Argentine Dependency --
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Part four. Latin American Structuralism --
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Chapter six. Raúl Prebisch and the Origins of the Doctrine of Unequal Exchange --
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Chapter seven. The Latin American Structuralists and the Institutionalists: Convergence in Development Theory --
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Part five. Import Substitution Industrialization: Problems and Promise --
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Chapter eight.The Import Substitution Strategy of Economic Development --
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Chapter nine. Challenges and Opportunities Posed by Asia's Superexporters: Implications for Manufactured Exports from Latin America --
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Chapter ten. Import Substitution Policies, Tariffs, and Competition --
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Part six. Transnational Corporations and the Role of the State --
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Chapter eleven. Transnational Corporations, Dependent Development, and State Policy in the Semiperiphery: A Comparison of Brazil and Mexico --
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Chapter twelve. How to Divest in Latin America and Why --
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Part seven. Development and the Technological Imperative --
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Chapter thirteen. The Technological Frontier in Latin America: Creativity and Productivity --
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Part eight. Employment, Unemployment, and the Informal Economy --
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Chapter fourteen. The Employment Question and Development Policies in Latin America --
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Chapter fifteen. Unequal Development and the Absorption of Labor --
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Part nine. Inflation, Monetarism, and the IMF --
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Chapter sixteen. Latin American Experiments in Neo-Conservative Economics --
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Chapter seventeen. Values in Conflict: Developing Countries as Social Laboratories --
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Part ten. The Debt Disaster: Causes and Solutions --
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Chapter eighteen. Debt and Development: The Future of Latin America --
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Statistical Appendix --
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Contributors --
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Index --
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About the Book
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781555870676
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781685852481
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685852481
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685852481