The First Graduate School of Latin American Economic Studies (Escolatina) Between “Autochthonous” and International Logics (1956-1964)

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ID12860860
AuthorsElisa Klüger (0000-0002-2375-8565, Centro Brasileiro de Analise e Planejamento, corresponding author), Johanna Gautier Morin (0000-0003-2633-591X, University of Fribourg), Thierry Rossier (0000-0003-3340-9091, University of Fribourg)
Year2023
Volume42
Publication date2023-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue d Histoire des Sciences Humaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1622-468X • E-ISSN: 1963-1022
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/rhsh.8086
OpenAlexW4382724257
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

After World War II, international organizations and research institutes dedicated to the development of local expertise thrived in Latin America. The desire to produce appropriate knowledge to solve the region’s socio-economic problems raised the question of the intellectual and material autonomy of these organizations. This article combines intellectual and social history to investigate the early years of the first Graduate School of Latin American Economic Studies (ESCOLATINA), founded in Chile in 1956. The mixture of archival research, collective biography, and sequence analysis allows us to examine the tensions between, on the one hand, the quest for epistemic autonomy and rapprochement with other social sciences, and, on the other hand, the influence of the US model of graduate schools of economics together with the dependence on foreign resources and experts. The history of ESCOLATINA also reveals how the academic and political environment in Chile shaped the school and transformed it over time

Latin Americans · Mathematics education · Political science · Sociology · Economic Theory and Policy · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology

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