Economic Development and Global Crisis

Jos Lus Cardoso is Research Professor of Economics and the History of Economics at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo is Full Professor in Political Economy at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. Mara Eugenia Romero is Research Professor of the History of Economics at the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Mexico.

Introduction Jos Lus Cardoso, Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Maria Eugenia Romero Sotelo Part I: Insights from the History of Economic Thought 1. Economic Development: Past and present Cosimo Perrotta 2. Jeremy Benthams Spanish American Utopia Annie L. Cot 3. Reconsidering Protectionism in Friedrich Lists Economic Theory Juan Fernando Palacio 4. Some Lessons for Monetary Policy Based on Interest Rates Rules from Myrdals Monetary Equilibrium: Why should we read Myrdal as a complement of Wicksell? Adrin De Len-Arias 5. Recollecting Kaleckis Studies of the US Economy Julio Lpez G Part II: Latin American Development Theory and Experience Re-Visited 6. Ral Prebisch and the Keynesian Theory in Latin America Claudia Sunna 7. CEPAL on Investment Criteria and the Planning of Import-Substituting Industrialization Mauro Boianovsky 8. High Development Theory: CEPAL and beyond Davide Gualerzi and Alan Cibils 9. The Concept of Marginality in Latin American Thought: Perspectives and approaches for understanding history Vernica Villarespe and Hilda Caballero 10. The Dependency Theory and Development: A historical review Erasmo Senz Carrete 11. The New-Style of Developmentalism in Latin America: Kubitschek and Frondizi Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca and Maria Heloisa Lenz 12. Brief Review of Mexicos Foreign Debt 1824-2010 Juan Carlos Tellez Mosqueda 13. The Crises in Peripheral Countries 1994-2002 and the Balance of Payments Theory: A Historical Approach Noem Brenta