Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment

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Routledge, 2010 M11 26 - 312 pages

Upon its publication in 1989, this was the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Latin American School of Development and an invaluable guide to the major Third World contribution to development theory. The four major strands in the work of Latin American Theorists are: structuralism, internal colonialism, marginality and dependency. Exploring all four in detail, and the interconnections between them, Cristobal Kay highlights the developed world’s over-reliance on, and partial knowledge of, dependency theory in its approach to development issues, and analyses the first major challenges to neo-classical and modernisation theories from the Third World.

 

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PREFACE vii
Thechallenge fromthe periphery1 2The structuralist schoolof development 25
social relationsand capital accumulation
debates critiques and beyond163 7 The Latin American contribution in perspective 197

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