Raúl Prebisch and the development agenda at the dawn of the twenty-first century

Bibliographic Data

ID11650643
AuthorsJosé Antonio Ocampo (0000-0001-8025-6492, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume2001
Issue75
Pages23-37
Publication date2001-12-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCEPAL review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0251-2920 • E-ISSN: 1684-0348
PublisherUnited Nations Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.18356/80eee999-en
OpenAlexW816214345
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited9

The hundredth anniversary of the birth of Raúl Prebisch is an invaluable opportunity for us to take another look at the ideas of this great Latin American, one of the thinkers from the developing world who has had the strongest influence in world economic debates. His ideas have been the subject of heavy criticism, but much of this has been based on distorted versions of his thinking or of its practical application, rather than his true intellectual work. Taking his proposals out of their historical context has also been a frequent practice, even by some of his own followers. It should be remembered, in particular, that many of his proposals were made in the light of the collapse of the international trade and financial system in the 1930s, whose reconstruction had barely begun when he published his most influential works (Prebisch, 1949, 1951 and 1952)

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