Dependency and Development in Latin America
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Book Overview
At the end of World War II, several Latin American countries seemed to be ready for industrialization and self-sustaining economic growth. Instead, they found that they had exchanged old forms of political and economic dependence for a new kind of dependency on the international capitalism of multinational corporations. In the much-acclaimed original Spanish edition ( Dependencia y Desarrollo en Am rica Latina ) and now in the expanded and revised...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520035275
ISBN13:9780520035270
Release Date:March 1979
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:227 Pages
Weight:0.82 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
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Landmark of dependency movement
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This book serves as one fo the main texts representing the (now defunct) dependency movement that hit Latin America in the 60s and 70s. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, one of the authors who later became president of Brazil, changed his posture and ended up becoming one of the strongest supporters of orthodox economic policy. This book is important in the history fo economic thought in Latin America, but one should not forget the context in which it was written and it may be a good idea to read it in conjunction with the many works that have been written since on the fallacies of thought in the dependency movement.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
THe name of the author is Fernando Henrique Cardoso, therefore, Fernando H. Cardoso, and not "E." the way you printed it. He is not Spanish.
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