Ideas, Policies and Economic Development in the Americas (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

✍ Scribed by Esteban Perez-Caldentey, Matias Vernengo

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 261
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 economic development. However, 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 valuable new contribution to this emerging literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 8
Copyright......Page 9
Dedication......Page 10
Contents......Page 12
Figures......Page 14
Tables......Page 15
Contributors......Page 16
Foreword......Page 17
Acknowledgments......Page 18
1 Introduction: Ideas, policies and economic development in the Americas......Page 20
2 Method and passion in Celso Furtado......Page 28
3 Shifting developmental paradigms in Latin America: Is neoliberalism history?......Page 50
4 Exchange rate regimes from a Latin American analytical perspective......Page 81
5 The Latin American theory of inflation and beyond......Page 100
6 The unfamiliar Raúl Prebisch......Page 117
7 Mexico’s market reforms in historical perspective......Page 142
8 The continuing relevance of the terms of trade and industrialization debates......Page 176
9 Strategies of “industrialization by invitation” in the Caribbean......Page 202
10 Anglo-Saxon versus Latin American structuralism in development economics......Page 227
11 Economic ideas and policies in historical perspective: Cairú and Hamilton on trade and finance......Page 246
Index......Page 259

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