Apuntes para el Estudio de la Historia del Pensamiento Económico Latinoamericano del Siglo XX

Abstract

Latin American economic thought belongs to contributions and alternative constructions of development, which are based on the historical terms, cultural and socio-economic conditions of the region, their first expressions present in the 17th century, to the formulations of the quantity theory of money and the price of the scholastics.

Later, in the 20th century, the most significant contributions are given with José Carlos Mariátegui from Peru, Josue de Castro from Brazil and Antonio Garcia Nossa from Colombia, who agreed on the need to overcome the limitations of Eurocentric thinking and it say that the conquest and colony, only worsened the living conditions of the region people.

General point, the three major trends of economic thought in Latin American were: Cepaline-led by Raúl Prebisch, orthodox Marxism, and dependency theory, it would be identified later with the world-system theory. These contributions came after that, postwar II and the 70’s, when it developed the first references to the concept of development. These contributions came after postwar II and the 70’s, when it developed the first references to the concept of development.