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...

Argentinian economist, who virtually founded UNCTAD, being its first secretary-general from 1962 to 1969. He was a graduate and professor of political economy of the University of Buenos Aires. After employment in the Ministry of Finance, he was...

Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986) was an Argentine economist known for his contribution to structuralist economics, in particular the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis that formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He is sometimes considered to be a...

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...