WEEK 2: Dependency and Development in Latin America

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REQUIRED
  • Peter F. Klaren, "Lost Promise: Explaining Latin American Underdevelopment," in Peter F. Klaren and Thomas J. Bossert, eds., Promise of Development: Theories of Change in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1986):3-33.

  • Andre Gunder Frank, "The Development of Underdevelopment," in Peter F. Klaren and Thomas J. Bossert, eds., Promise of Development: Theories of Change in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1986):111-23.

  • Teodoro dos Santos, "The Structure of Dependence," The American Economic Review, May 1970, 60 (2):231-6.

  • Peter Evans, "Multinationals, State-Owned Corporations, and the Transformation of Imperialism: A Brazilian Case Study, Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 1977, 26 (1):43-64.

  • Gary Gereffi, "Drug Firms and Dependency in Mexico: The Case of the Steroid Hormone Industry," International Organization, Winter 1978, 32 (1):237-86.
RECOMMENDED
  • Hernando de Soto, The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), p. xxi-xxviii, 3-26, 131-87.

  • J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela, "Modernization and Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment," Comparative Politics, July 1978, 10 (4):535-52.

  • Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Falleto, Dependency and Development in Latin America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), p. vii-xxv, 149-216.

  • Gary Gereffi and Donald L. Wyman, Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990), 1-51.

  • Gary Gereffi and Donald L. Wyman, Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990), p. 90-109, 292-320 (contributions by Bradford and Villareal).

  • Gary Gereffi and Peter Evans, "Transnational Corporations, Dependent Development, and State Policy in the Semi-Periphery: A Comparison of Brazil and Mexico," Latin American Research Review, 1981, 16 (3):31-64.

  • Steven Haber, "Assessing the Obstacles to Industrialization: The Mexican Economy, 1830-1940," Journal of Latin American Studies, February 1992, 24 (1):1-32.

  • J. MeyerStamer, "Path dependence in regional development: Persistence and change in three industrial clusters in Santa Catarina, Brazil, World Development, August 1998, 26 (8):1495-1511.

  • Albert O. Hirschmann, "The Rise and Decline of Development Economics," in Essays in Trespassing: Economy to Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

  • Eliana Cardoso and Albert Fishlow, "Latin American Economic Development: 1950-80," Journal of Latin American Studies, Supplementary issue, 1992 (24):197-218.

  • Albert O. Hirschmann, "The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1968, 82 (1):1-32.

  • Werner Baer, "Import Substitution and Industrialization in Latin America: Experiences and Interpretations," Latin American Research Review, Spring 1972, 7 (1):95-111.

  • Patricio Meller, ed., The Latin American Development Debate: Neostructuralism, Neomonetarism, and Adjustment Processes (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991), p. 9-40, 59-75 (French-Davis and Munoz, Lustig, and Rojas).

  • Robert Packenham, The Dependency Movement: Scholarship and Politics in Development Studies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).
LITERARY OVERLAY
  • Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (New York: Harper & Row, 1970) OR Alejo Carpentier, Reasons of State (New York: Knopf, 1976).

 

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