Ideas, Policies and Economic Development in the Americas

Esteban Pérez -Caldentey is based at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Matias Vernengo is in the economics department at the University of Utah, USA

• Introduction 1. Half a Century of Terms of Trade Controversies 2. Aspects of the Terms of Trade Controversy in Mexican History of Economic Thought 3. Strategies of ‘Industrialization by Invitation’ in the Caribbean 4. Exchange Rate Regimes from a Latin American Analytical Perspective 5. Economic Ideas and Policies in Historical Perspective: Cairú and Hamilton on Trade and Finance 6. Raúl Prebisch Before and After ECLAC and UNCTAD 7. Anglo-Saxon Structuralism versus Latin American Structuralism: Latin American Development Thought in Comparative Perspective 8. Shifting Developmental Paradigms in Latin America: Is Neoliberalismo History? 9. Celso Furtado and Economic Development 10. Reflections on Structuralism 11. Structural-inertial Inflation Revisited