Margarita Fajardo is Professor of History at Sarah Lawrence College.
[This book is] a tour de force of Latin American economic thinking.
It is bound to generate much discussion and debate.
*H-Net Reviews*
Excellent…should be required reading for scholars of political
economy and Latin American intellectual history.
*History of Social Science*
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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