Theorizing underdevelopment

Latin America and Romania, 1860-1950

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3087249
AutoresJoseph L Love (Universidade de Illinois, EUA; Universidade de São Paulo, autor de correspondencia)
Año1990
Volumen4
Número8
Páginas62-95
Fecha de publicación1990-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEstudos Avançados (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0103-4014 • E-ISSN: 1806-9592
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0103-40141990000100006
OpenAlexW1996327695
SCIELO_PIDS0103-40141990000100006
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas16

T he relationship between shifts in the world market and ideas on economic development in Latin America contrasted sharply with that in Romania before the First World War. In the latter country, market failure, social upheaval, and access to the continuing Russian debate led to new theoretical responses, in both Marxist and non-Marxist discourses; in Latin America, the perceived success of the export-driven economies, combined with institutional factors and the absence or feebleness of certain critical traditions known in Romania, resulted in a prolonged inability to mount a theoretical attack on the "outward-directed development" prescribed by the Ricardian thesis of comparative advantage. Thus in Latin America, with which this essay is principally concerned, both Marxist and non-Marxist challenges to the region's place in the international division of labor were relatively ineffective before the War's end. Industrial development was well underway in some countries before government policy pushed in the same direction, and a theoretical justification of industrializaion came last -even if it was the first important Third World contribution to development economics. The essay first considers the economic experience of four major countries in the region -Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico -and then turns to the social situation of the Latin American intellectuals and their ideological responses in these and other nations to the shifts wrought within their countries by the international economy. The larger part of the paper deals with intellectuals and their ideas, and includes explicit comparisons with Romania, the eastern European country with some important similarities to, and instructive differences from, Latin America; it was also the one whose intellectual traditions had a direct impact on Latin America, through the works of Mihail Manoilescu. *' Tambm publicado na Reriew do "Fernand Braudel Center" (E.U.A), qual agradeo a autorizao para republicar este texto. and Argentina and Brazil followed in the 1860's. But the period 1870-90 provided a much more rapid ascent. These countries, plus Mexico, now felt the full impact or the combined effects of the European economic expansion, which, in the Argentine and Brazilian cases, brought in its train unprecedented levels of European immigration

Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics) · Industrialisation · Latin Americans · Marxist philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Underdevelopment · Economic Theory and Policy · Law