Economic Development and Global Crisis

Introduction José Luís Cardoso, Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Maria Eugenia Romero Sotelo Part I: Insights from the History of Economic Thought 1. Economic Development: Past and present Cosimo Perrotta 2. Jeremy Bentham’s Spanish American Utopia Annie L. Cot 3. Reconsidering Protectionism in Friedrich List’s Economic Theory Juan Fernando Palacio 4. Some Lessons for Monetary Policy Based on Interest Rates Rules from Myrdal’s Monetary Equilibrium: Why should we read Myrdal as a complement of Wicksell? Adrián De León-Arias 5. Recollecting Kalecki’s Studies of the US Economy Julio López G Part II: Latin American Development Theory and Experience Re-Visited 6. Raúl Prebisch and the Keynesian Theory in Latin America Claudia Sunna 7. CEPAL on Investment Criteria and the Planning of Import-Substituting Industrialization Mauro Boianovsky 8. High Development Theory: CEPAL and beyond Davide Gualerzi and Alan Cibils 9. The Concept of Marginality in Latin American Thought: Perspectives and approaches for understanding history Verónica Villarespe and Hilda Caballero 10. The Dependency Theory and Development: A historical review Erasmo Sáenz Carrete 11. The New-Style of Developmentalism in Latin America: Kubitschek and Frondizi Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca and Maria Heloisa Lenz 12. Brief Review of Mexico’s Foreign Debt 1824-2010 Juan Carlos Tellez Mosqueda 13. The Crises in Peripheral Countries 1994-2002 and the Balance of Payments Theory: A Historical Approach Noemí Brenta