ABSTRACT
When applied to Latin American economies, regulationist approaches are defined in terms of a critique of dependence theories and the structuralism of the Commision Economica para America Latina y el Caraibe (CEPAL). While recognising the influence of the international context, exerted via many different channels, régulation approaches have sought to understand, in a national framework, historical variations in accumulation regimes and examples of régulation found in Latin America. Regulationists show the same concern to identify the specific features of each Latin American society and economy as that which inspired the work of Anibal Pinto and other researchers studying different ‘styles of development’ from the 1960s to the mid-1970s (Pinto, 1976; Calcagno, 1990).
