The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch

Download or read book The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch written by Matias E. Margulis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: the global political economy of Raúl Prebisch -- Part I Prebisch as architect and theorist of the global political economy -- 1 Development through tighter economic integration: how might Prebisch size up some trends and issues thus far into the twenty-first century? -- 2 Thinking big from the periphery: Raúl Prebisch and the world system -- 3 Raúl Prebisch and the theory of regional economic integration -- 4 The Latin American origins of Bretton Woods -- Part II Power and resistance in the global political economy -- 5 Raúl Prebisch and the historical roots of the current movement against corporate-led globalisation -- 6 From Palais de Nations to Centre William Rappard: Raúl Prebisch and UNCTAD as sources of ideas in the GATT/WTO -- 7 The West remains on top, economically and politically -- Part III Diagnosing structural change in the global political economy -- 8 A changing role for agriculture in global political economy? Brazil's emergence as an agro-power -- 9 Back to the future reloaded: Latin America's development strategy during the commodity boom -- 10 Raúl Prebisch and the terms of trade: how things have changed... -- Index.