Fidel Aroche is certainly right that some of the original important  
contributions to development economics in the 1950s were made in  
Spanish and Portuguese, particularly in the context of the United  
Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) by Raul  
Prebisch, Celso Furtado and others. However, most of that was  
translated into English at the time or shortly after. Indeed, the  
debate about economic development was an illustration of the  
internationalization of economics, a process in which international  
organizations such as the UN and the International Economic  
Association played a key role.

Mauro


Citando Fidel Aroche <[log in to unmask]>:

> It is most interesting that in all this exchange of references and  
> ideas (all written in English), including many of the suggested  
> surveys, does not mention even by mistake all the discussion on  
> development written in Portuguese and Castilian during the 1950's  
> throgugh the 1970's, when the World Bank buried the discussion on  
> development and we all turned to search for equilibrium.
> Fidel Aroche
>


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