Latin America In The World Economy

Frederick Stirton Weaver is professor of economics and history at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His publications include the Inside the Volcano: History and Political Economy of Central America (Westview, 1994).

• The Changing World Economy: Introduction and Early History -- Competitive Capitalist Industrialization, Free Trade Imperialism, and Latin American Independence, 1700-1850 -- Finance Capitalism, the New Imperialism, and Latin American Export Economies, 1850-1930 -- Modern Times, Bretton Woods, and Transnational Corporations, 1920-1970s -- Import Substitution and Semi-Industrialization in Latin America, 1930-1970s -- International Competition and the Dissolution of Modern Times -- Debt, Democracy, and Uncertain Transformations: Latin America in a New World