ABSTRACT
This book explores peripheral visions on economic development, both in the sense that it deals with specific issues of economic development and underdevelopment in countries at the periphery of the world economy, and in terms of its exploration of the economic thinking developed in those regions, particularly in Latin America. Bringing together an international group of historians of thought, economic historians and development economists from Latin America, Europe and other parts of the world, this volume is highly credited and is an excellent contribution to development economic studies.
This book is divided into four parts. Following the introduction, the first set of papers describes the evolution of core-periphery perspectives in key contributions by Raúl Prebisch, Oskar Lange, Albert Hirschman, Celso Furtado and Homero Cuevas. The second set discusses the links between unbalanced productive structures and external trade in peripheral countries. The third set contains papers on critical episodes in the development of monetary and financial systems in Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries. The fourth set deals with geographical and institutional aspects of path dependence in the governance of external trade and in the development of liberties, property rights and economic education in Europe, Latin America and Africa. Several chapters make use of hitherto unexplored archival material. Other chapters draw attention to important episodes or literatures that have largely gone unnoticed in the English-speaking world. Yet others combine conceptual innovations with work on new historical data and other sources hitherto not utilized in such contexts.
This book is ideal for those who study and research development economics, history of economic thought and economic history, especially in Latin America.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|78 pages
Core and periphery
chapter 2|32 pages
Core and periphery in the early Cold War
chapter 3|14 pages
Anarchic accumulation, un-effective demand and institutional constraints
chapter 5|15 pages
Classical thought from the periphery
part II|66 pages
Productive structures and external trade
chapter 8|12 pages
The unbalanced productive structure
part III|72 pages
Money and finance
chapter 10|14 pages
Nineteenth century monetary utopias in Latin America
chapter 11|15 pages
Distributive conflict and monetary institutions in peripheral economies
chapter 12|15 pages
The Gold-Exchange Standard in practice
part IV|108 pages
Geography and institutions