Dependency Theory After Fifty Years: The Continuing Relevance of Latin American Critical Thought (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, #207)

by Claudio Katz

Stanley Malinowitz (Translator)

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This book received the Libertador Prize for Critical Thought (2018), demonstrating a renewal of interest in Dependency Theory. That conception initially included distinct forms of Marxism, liberalism, and developmentalism that should be differentiated, despite sharing the same name. The later retreat of that approach contrasts with the growing present-day relevance of its postulates; Latin America bears the effects of dependency even more acutely than in the past, making it imperative to understand the logic of its peripheral subordination. Dependency Theory in its original form is insufficient for explaining contemporary reality; it must be updated to interpret the current modalities of dependent capitalism. This book offers analytical clues to that reinvention.
  • ISBN10 9004471731
  • ISBN13 9789004471733
  • Publish Date 24 February 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill