Ideas, Policies and Economic Development in the Americas

ISBN-13: 9781138806313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 262 str.

Esteban Perez-Caldentey; Matias Vernengo

Opis

The history of economic ideas and their intricate relation to economic policies remains a relatively unexplored field in Latin American and Caribbean studies. This book is a useful contribution to this literature.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Half a Century of Terms of Trade Controversies  2. Aspects of the Terms of Trade Controversy in Mexican History of Economic Thought  3. Strategies of ‘Industrialization by Invitation’ in the Caribbean  4. Exchange Rate Regimes from a Latin American Analytical Perspective  5. Economic Ideas and Policies in Historical Perspective: Cairú and Hamilton on Trade and Finance  6. Raúl Prebisch Before and After ECLAC and UNCTAD  7. Anglo-Saxon Structuralism versus Latin American Structuralism: Latin American Development Thought in Comparative Perspective  8. Shifting Developmental Paradigms in Latin America: Is Neoliberalismo History?  9. Celso Furtado and Economic Development  10. Reflections on Structuralism  11. Structural-inertial Inflation Revisited

O autorze

Esteban Pérez -Caldentey is based at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Matias Vernengo is in the economics department at the University of Utah, USA