Crafting the Third World: Theorizing Underdevelopment in Rumania and Brazil (Comparative Studies in History, Institutions, and Public Policy) - Hardcover

Love, Joseph L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804725462 ISBN 13: 9780804725460

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This innovative study compares the history of economic ideas and ideologies in Rumania and Brazil-and more broadly, those in East Central Europe and Latin America-in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Synopsis

This innovative study compares the history of economic ideas and ideologies in Romania and Brazil - and more broadly, those in East Central Europe and Latin America - in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Whereas previous histories of the idea of economic development have focused on "First World" theorists, this book considers theorists in two "backward" countries who made important contributions to the field. Latin America is well known to economic historians as the region that gave rise to the Structuralist school and Dependency movement. Less well known is the fact that East Central Europe is important as the early training ground and the empirical concern of the first generation of development economists. This comparative study examines the ways in which economists and other social scientists in Romania and Brazil confronted the issues of economic backwardness.

About the Author

Joseph L. Love is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804725462
• ISBN 13: 9780804725460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364