Peripheral Visions of Economic Development : New frontiers in development economics and the history of economic thought (Paperback)

1. Introduction Mario Garcia-Molina and Hans-Michael Trautwein Part I: Core and periphery 2. Core and periphery in the early cold war: a historical analysis of development theory Natalia Bracarense 3. Anarchic accumulation, un-effective demand and institutional constraints: Oskar Lange’s critique of capitalist dynamics in the core and the periphery Roberto Lampa 4. Development economics today: insights from Hirschman and Furtado Davide Gualerzi and Alan Cibils 5. Classical thought from the periphery: Homero Cuevas on non-basic goods and the standard commodity Mario Garcia-Molina and Julian Libreros Part II: Productive structures and external trade 6. Free trade and protectionism in primary export economies Pier Luigi Porta 7. CEPAL and the balance of payments constraint in the 1950s Mauro Boianovsky and Ricardo Solis 8. The unbalanced productive structure: a reconstruction of Marcelo Diamand’s contributions to economic theory Ariel Dvoskin and German Feldman 9. A reinterpretation of the ‘unbalanced productive structures’ Eduardo Crespo and Andres Lazzarini Part III: Money and finance 10. 19th century monetary utopias in Latin-America: the influence of French liberalism on the Colombian free banking experiment Andres Alvarez 11. Distributive conflict and monetary institutions in peripheral economies: the Argentine experience with the Exchange Office of 1867 German Feldman 12. The Gold-Exchange Standard in practice: banking devices and international monetary relations, 1890 ? 1914 Eugenia Dinivitzer 13. The BIS and the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s Piet Clement and Ivo Maes Part IV: Geography and institutions 14. Trade and colonization: the development of economic thought about two types of transnational governance Hans Michael Trautwein 15. Struggling for institutional change Merchant guilds, transimperial entangled economic policies, and Spanish backwardness: Havana in Atlantic perspective, 1792. Jesus Bohorquez 16. The teaching of political economy, circulation of ideas and economic performance: a review of the Colombian experience in the 19th century Claudia Milena Pico 17. Path dependence and interdependence in institutions: the Nigerian case David Fadiran and Mare Sarr