Raúl Prebisch (1901-1986) was known primarily for his work as a scholar specializing in international and development economics and for his leadership as an executive in various agencies of the United Nations. His greatest contribution to...

Prebisch y Furtado: El estructuralismo latinoamericano. Edited by Jorge Lora and Carlos Mallorquin. Puebla, Mexico: Benemérita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, 1999. Pp. 307. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. No price. At the present moment of grave misgivings about neoliberalism, it seems that a retrospective look...

Introduction Raul Prebisch, the late Argentinean economist, is widely acclaimed to be the father of the Latin American School of Economic Thought (LASET), which argues for a shift in the commercial policy of the developed countries to favor the less developed. Prebisch exerted...