1st Edition

Ideas, Policies and Economic Development in the Americas

262 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The interplay of ideas and policies is central to understanding the historical evolution of economies. Ideas shape economic institutions and real economic constraints are the source of new economic ideas. The history of economic ideas, both those that are fairly recent and those that are considerably older, may provide a fertile ground for new approaches to Latin American and Caribbean... Read more

Introduction (to be written)

1. Half a Century of Terms of Trade Controversies

José Antonio Ocampo and Maria Angela Parra

2. Aspects of the terms of trade controversy in Mexican History of Economic Thought

Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros

3. Strategies of ‘Industrialization by Invitation’ in the Caribbean

Esteban Pérez Caldentey

4. Exchange Rate Regimes from a Latin American Analytical Perspective (Attached)

Kenneth P. Jameson

5. Economic Ideas and Policies in Historical Perspective: Cairú and Hamilton on Trade and Finance

Matías Vernengo

6. Raúl Prebisch before and after ECLAC and UNCTAD

Carlos Mallorquin

7. Anglo-Saxon Structuralism versus Latin American Structuralism: Latin American Development Thought in Comparative Perspective

Diego Sanchez Ancochea

8. Shifting Developmental Paradigms in Latin America: Is Neoliberalismo History?

James Cypher

9. Celso Furtado and Economic Development

Alcino F. Câmara Neto

10. Reflections on Structuralism

Lance Taylor

11. Structural-Inertial Inflation Revisited

Julio López Gallardo and Ricardo Mansilla

Biography

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