VALPY FITZGERALD is Director of the Oxford University Finance and Trade Policy Research Centre and a Professional Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, UK. He has acted as economic policy advisor to a number of Latin American governments as well as to the UN, the OECD and the UK Department of International Development. He is author of Global Markets and the Developing Economy. ROSEMARY THORP is Director of the Oxford University Latin American Centre and a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, UK. She recently authored the influential InterAmerican Development Bank study Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century and she is editor of An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America. She is also Chair of Oxfam, GB.

• Notes on Contributors Acronyms Preface Introduction: The Acceptance of Economic Doctrine in Latin America: V.FitzGerald & R.Thorp Economic Ideas, International Influences, and Domestic Politics: A Comparative Perspective: P.Gourevitch The Evolution of Economic Ideas: from Import-substitution to Human Development: F.Stewart The Hegemony of U.S. Economic Doctrines in Latin America: P.W.Drake The Conflict of Economic Doctrines in Latin America: V.FitzGerald 'Liberalismo Tropical' : The Career of a European Economic Doctrine in Nineteenth Century Latin America: N.Jacobsen Institutional Foundations of Economic Ideas in Latin America, 1914-1950: J.L.Love The Rise and Fall of Structuralism: J.L.Love Knowledge is Power: The Case of Colombian Economists: M.Palacios The Bretton Woods Institutions and the Transmission of Neo-liberal Ideas in Mexico: N.Woods The Shifting Foundations of Economic Liberalism in Latin American Public Policy: L.Whitehead Bibliography Index

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