Since I am not familiar with the history of Latin American economic
thought, I want to thank Marie Duggan for bringing some of these
writings to my attention.
There seems to be a parallel thread in western economic thought
beginning with the French Physiocrats & the Impot Unique followed by
Thomas Paine"s "Agrarian Justice", the 1850 edition of Herbert
Spencer's "Social Statics", and culminating in Henry George's
"Progress & Poverty-an Inquiry into the Causes of Industrial
Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth-The Remedy. "1879
Roy Davidson