Margarita Fajardo is Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College.
The World That Latin America Created is a tour de force of
Latin American economic thinking. It is bound to generate much
discussion and debate. -- Ian Merkel * H-Net Reviews *
The World That Latin America Created is a sweeping and
original history of cepalino structuralism and dependency
theory-two worldmaking schools of economic thought that Latin
American intellectuals crafted after 1930 and bequeathed to the
world by the 1970s. Historians of Latin America have long regarded
the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) as
one of the most important international institutions of the
twentieth century, and Fajardo has given us an authoritative
history of its development and the debates it spawned. -- Amy C.
Offner, author of Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and
Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
A trailblazing exploration of a fateful episode in
twentieth-century development history organized around the lives,
words, and deeds of its leading cast of characters. This book
shakes up conventional wisdoms about Latin America's postwar
development project and brings into sharp focus ideas long
distorted by neoliberal hindsight. It is certain to be widely read
in both North and South. -- Sarah Babb, author of Managing
Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism
The World That Latin America Created provides a
deeply-researched history of the intellectual and political project
of the cepalinos, explaining both the enduring significance
of their ideas and the counterreactions they inspired from both
right and left. In deftly navigating between theory and practice,
national politics and transnational institutions, and the
coalescence and fragmentation of a movement, Margarita Fajardo has
written a novel and timely account of a crucial episode in the
public life of economic ideas. -- Angus Burgin, author of The
Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the
Depression
Few things are so often cited and so little understood as
dependency theory. Margarita Fajardo's excellent book explains why:
the battle over the theory has been long and heated, stretching
over decades and continents. Through biographies of key players,
she guides us through the twists and turns of CEPAL and the
dependentistas, from revolutionary Cuba in the late 1950s to
the neoliberal turn in 1990s Brazil, exploding simplistic Cold War
binaries, refusing moralizing formulas, and keeping alive a legacy
of economic thought that offered no easy answers for a better
future. -- Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists: The End of
Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
With Margarita Fajardo's fine study, readers will understand how
and why Latin American economic ideas shaped a global generation.
Fajardo recalls an age when debates over political economy defined
revolutions and cogently exposes the economic conflicts at the
heart of Latin America's Cold War. -- Brodwyn Fischer, author of
A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in
Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro
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