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Latin-American Development: The Politics of the Economics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

M. H. J. Finch
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A reviewer confronted with fourteen new books on the Latin-American economy inevitably seeks a common theme on which to hang his remarks, in the hope that this will make sense of his labours. Let it be confessed immediately that diligent search has failed to reveal any such unity in these volumes. Indeed, on the safe assumption that they represent a random selection from the rapidly growing literature on the subject, they might almost be taken as evidence of a diversity of approach. An alternative strategy, therefore, is to argue the existence of central doctrines in the literature on Latin- American development in the last twenty-five years, and to relate to them the literature under review.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , November 1973 , pp. 279 - 287
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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