Dependency Theory After Fifty Years

The Continuing Relevance of Latin American Critical Thought

Bibliographic Data

ID19935993
AuthorsClaudio Katz, Stanley Malinowitz
Year2022
Publication date2022-02-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDependency Theory After Fifty Years (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004472693
OpenAlexW3193918796
ISBN9789004472693
LanguageEN
Citations received19

This book received the Libertador Prize for Critical Thought (2018), demonstrating a renewal of interest in Dependency Theory. That conception initially included distinct forms of Marxism, liberalism, and developmentalism that should be differentiated, despite sharing the same name. The later retreat of that approach contrasts with the growing present-day relevance of its postulates; Latin America bears the effects of dependency even more acutely than in the past, making it imperative to understand the logic of its peripheral subordination. Dependency Theory in its original form is insufficient for explaining contemporary reality; it must be updated to interpret the current modalities of dependent capitalism. This book offers analytical clues to that reinvention

Capitalism · Dependency (UML) · Dependency theory (database theory) · Developmentalism · Economics · Epistemology · Liberalism · Linguistics · Modalities · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Relevance (law) · Social science · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics) · Computer Science · History · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Law · Philosophy

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