[Posted by Mary Morgan on behalf of CM Lewis.]



Dear Soc Hist Econimics (and Felix Vardy)

A neo-modernisationist take on the late nineteenth and early 
twentieth century economic history of commodity export economies is 
available in the volume by Hunt and Cortes Conde.  A 
neo-structuralism take is provided by Thorp - Econ Hist of LA in the 
Twentieth Century - and later volumes edited with Enrique Cardenas 
and Jose Antonio Ocampo.  For economic thought/doctrine, see Thorp & 
FitzGerald, and contributions (history and history of economic ideas) 
by Love.  There also interesting surveys of cepalismo and dependency 
in Kay - LA theories of development and underdevelopment - , possibly 
a shade dated but worth reading.  Dos Santos is generally 
acknowledged as the 'father of dependency' theory.  There are 
important contributions to Dependency (and neo dependency theory) by 
Cardoso & Faletto (and Cardoso - though some of his contributions are 
rather dense).  Interesting as an 'historical record' is Prebisch's 
take on dependency theory (or a response to it 'twenty years on') in 
Revisita de CEPAL 1988 vol XXXIV.

Is this helpful?


Colin M. Lewis

Professor of Latin American Economic History
& Head of Department

Department of Economic History
London School of Economics & Political Science
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