Political Economy of Peripheral Growth

José Miguel Ahumada is a Teaching Associate at the Department of Politics and Government in the Alberto Hurtado University, Chile. Dr Ahumada’s main research interests are in the areas of political economy of development in Latin America, comparative political economy and the history of economic thought.

• Introduction.- The political economy of development and integration: a structuralist perspective.- Latin America since the 1990s: deindustrialization, reprimarization and policy space restrictions.- The military dictatorship and the origins of peripheral growth.- The rise and fall of peripheral growth: Chile during the 1990s.- Chile in the road to the commodity boom: deindustrialization without policy space.- Life after the commodity boom: the structure of contemporary peripheral development (2011 –2015).- Conclusions: the mirages of the miracle.