Dependency and Development in Latin America

by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Enzo Faletto Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Faletto Enzo

Book Overview

At the end of World War II, several Latin American counties seemed to be ready for industrializations and self-sustaining economic growth. Instead, they found that they had exchanged old forms of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520035275
• ISBN13: 9780520035270
• Release Date: March 1979
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Landmark of dependency movement

This book serves as one fo the main texts representing the (now defunct) dependency movement that hit Latin America in the 60s and 70s. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, one of the authors who later became president of Brazil, changed his posture and ended up becoming one of the strongest supporters of orthodox economic policy. This book is important in the history fo economic thought in Latin America, but one should not forget the context in which it was written and it may be a good idea to read it in conjunction with the many works that have been written since on the fallacies of thought in the dependency movement.

mistake

THe name of the author is Fernando Henrique Cardoso, therefore, Fernando H. Cardoso, and not "E." the way you printed it. He is not Spanish.