New Paths: Globalization in a Historical Perspective

Forty years ago, in 1967, I completed with Enzo Faletto, in Santiago de Chile, the draft of a book, Dependency and Democracy in Latin America. ◊ The book discussed the main interpretations on the theme of development. At that time, both of us worked at the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) better known in the region by its Spanish acronyms, CEPAL, the UN institution that proposed an approach to the studies on economic development known as Latin American structuralism. The main architect of this theory was the Argentinean economist, Raul Prebisch, but it underwent several developments.