James L. Dietz

Overcoming Underdevelopment: What Has Been Learned from the East Asian and Latin American Experiences?

It is a long way in both time and tenor from the first wave of thought about development found in the works of Gunnar Myrdal, Albert Hirschman, Rautl Prebisch, and Dudley Seers to the post1970s brand of neoliberal development economics offered by Gillis et al., Deepak Lal, Anne Krueger, and Jeffrey Sachs, for example. The early work on development was grounded in experience that resulted in cautious theorizing and generalization. Neoliberal development economics is significantly more sweeping in scope, more theoretical, and less burdened by historical or empirical specificity. It is a generic monoeconomics. The formula for development is devastatingly simple: Unleash the power of market forces and reduce the states role in the economic sphere, or, where that is not possible, at a minimum ensure that state policy is applied equally to all actors. Neoliberal development thought rules not only in the academy, but is the major force behind the shift in economic policymaking in the Commonwealth of Independent States and in Eastern Europe. In Latin America, the neoliberal agenda has been applied to individual countries since the mid-1980s and is now driving the rush toward hemispheric economic integration with the United

Dependency Theory: A Review Article

(1980). Dependency Theory: A Review Article. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 751-758.

El Comité de Amas de Casa de Siglo XX: an Organizational Experience of Bolivian Women

Si me permiten hablar... is the title of the oral testimony of Domitila Barrios de Chungara, a woman from the Bolivian mines, whose story I collected and elaborated after meeting with her at the Tribunal of the U.N. International Woman’s Year Meeting in Mexico City in 1975. First published in Spanish in 1977 by Siglo Veintiuno in Mexico, the book has now been translated and published in nine languages and has recently appeared in English as Let Me Speak (1979) [see the review of the book which

Recent Research on Puerto Rico

Maldonado-Denis, Manuel, The Emigration Dialectic, New York: International Publishers, 1980. Pp. 156.

Introduction: Socialism and Imperialism in the Caribbean

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The Process of Economic Development

3.25 paper. Marzan, Julio (ed.), Inventing a Word: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. Pp. 184.

Economic History of Puerto Rico: Institutional Change and Capitalist Development

6.95 paper. Mattos Cintr6n, Wilfredo, La polltica y lo politico en Puerto Rico, Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1980. Pp. 207. 85 pesos. Pic6, Fernando, Liberated y servidumbre en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX, Rio Piedras: Ediciones Huracan, 1979. Pp. 173.

The Intellectual Capital of Michal Kalecki

3.75. Sariola, Sakari, The Puerto Rican Dilemma, Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1979. Pp. 200.

Puerto Rico: Negotiating Development and Change

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Static and Dynamic Comparative Advantage: A Multi-Period Analysis with Declining Terms of Trade

This issue focuses on furthering our understanding of the development of imperialism and socialism. In the first article, Nelson Valdes analyzes transformations of Cuban planning over the history of the revolution in terms of the impact of such changes on the development of socialism. Rauil Fernandez, in the second article, provides a theoretical analysis of the impact of imperialism in Latin America and applies that framework to a study of Colombia. In the last article, Trevor Sudama critiques the influential theory of plantation economy as inadequate for an understanding of the contemporary Caribbean and especially for Trinidad and Tobago, for which he provides a detailed analysis.