Dependency Theory After Fifty Years

Download or read book Dependency Theory After Fifty Years written by Claudio Katz and published by Studies in Critical Social Sci. This book was released on 2022 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--