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“Dependency Theory” and Latin American Historiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Tulio Halperin-Donghi
Tulio Halperin-Donghi*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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More than ten years have passed since the publication of Dependencia y desarrollo en América Latina, thus providing a fitting opportunity to assess the impact of dependency theory after a decade of fiery debates and hopeful explorations. Cardoso and Faletto's book had an immediate and decisive influence, not only on the reading public but—perhaps more importantly—on the collective effort to define the issues and themes around which a new view of Latin America was to be built, based on the recognition of the central role of dependency in the shaping of Latin American realities.

Type
Symposium
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , 1982 , pp. 115 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © 1982 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

Translated with funds provided by the Ford Foundation.

1. André Gunder Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America (New York, 1967).

2. F. H. Cardoso and E. Faletto, “Postcriptum a ‘Dependencia y desarrollo en América Latina,‘” in Desarrollo Económico (Buenos Aires) 17, no. 66 (Jul.–Sept. 1977).

3. The opinion of François Maspero in André Gunder Frank, Capitalismo y subdesarrollo en América Latina (Havana, 1970), p. 397.

4. André Gunder Frank, “La dependencia ha muerto. Viva la dependencia y la lucha de clases (Una respuesta a críticos),” Desarrollo Económico 13, no. 49 (Apr.-June 1973), p. 206.

5. Frank, Capitalismo, p. 191.

6. Ibid., p. 21.

7. Stanley J. and Barbara H. Stein, The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective (New York, 1970), “Dedication.”

8. Ibid., p. 6.

9. Victor Andrés Belaunde, La realidad nacional (Paris, 1931).

10. Now easily accessible in P. M. Sweezy et al., The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (London, 1976).

11. M. Dobb, “A Reply,” in Sweezy et al., The Transition, p. 60.

12. The pertinent sections won a vast audience in the West after the publication of Karl Marx, Precapitalist Economic Formations, edited and with an introduction by E. J. Hobsbawm (New York, 1964).

13. Ruggiero Romano, “A propósito de ‘Capitalismo y dependencia en América Latina’ de André Gunder Frank,” Desarrollo Económico 10, no. 38 (Jul.-Sept. 1970).

14. Carlos Sempat Assadourian et al., Modos de producción en América Latina (Cordova, Argentina, 1973).

15. Frank, “La dependencia ha muerto,” p. 214.

16. Carlos Sempat Assadourian, “Modos de producción, capitalismo y subdesarrollo en América Latina,” in Modos de producción, p. 77.

17. Ibid., p. 76.

18. Juan Carlos Garavaglia, “Introducción,” in Assadourian et al., Modos de producción, p. 8. Enrique Semo, on the other hand, is closer to Sweezy in his Historia del capitalismo en México. I (Mexico, 1973). If his contribution is not taken into account here it is because he has preferred to keep aloof from this discussion, only taking sides implicitly.

19. Enrique Tandeter, “Sobre el análisis de la dominación colonial, Desarrollo Económico 16, no. 61 (Apr.–June 1976).

20. Witold Kula, Teoría económica del sistema feudal (Buenos Aires, 1974). The date of publication in French is more significant, Théorie économique du Système feodal; pour un modèle de l'économie polonaise des XVI–XVIII siècles (Paris, 1970). This is now available in English, Economic Theory of the Feudal System (London, 1979).

21. Marcello Carmagnani, L'America Latina dal 500 ad oggi nascita, espansione e crisi di un sistema feodale (Milan, 1975).

22. Paul Bairoch, Revolution industrielle et sous-développement (Paris, 1963), p. 56.

23. Manuel Moreno Fraginals, El Ingenio; el complejo económico-social cubano del azucar (Havana, 1964). Severo Martínez Peláez, La patria del criollo. Ensayo de interpretación de la realidad guatemalteca (Guatemala, 1970).

24. Ciro F. S. Cardoso, “Severo Martínez Peláez y el carácter del régimen colonial,” in Assadourian et al., Modos de producción, pp. 83ff.; Murdo McLeod, review in Hispanic American Historical Review 54, no. 2(May 1974), pp. 317–19.