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The Power of Technology

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TECHNOLOGY GENERATION IN LATIN AMERICAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. Edited by KATZJORGE M. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Pp. 549. $39.95.)
NORTH-SOUTH TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: A CASE STUDY OF PETROCHEMICALS IN LATIN AMERICA. By CORTESMARILUZ and BOCOCKPETER. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Pp. 176. $25.00.)
THE POWER OF IDEOLOGY: THE QUEST FOR TECHNOLOGICAL AUTONOMY IN ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL. By ADLEREMANUEL. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987. Pp. 398. $45.00.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Simon Schwartzman
Simon Schwartzman*
Affiliation:
Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação em História Contemporânea do Brasil, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 1989 , pp. 209 - 221
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Copyright © 1989 by the University of Texas Press

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This essay was completed while the author was a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala.

References

Notes

1. See Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel, The Second Industrial Divide (New York: Basic Books, 1984).

2. See Daniel C. Levy, University and Government in Mexico (New York: Praeger, 1980); and Simon Schwartzman, “Brazil: Opportunity and Crisis in Higher Education,” Higher Education 17 (1988): 99–119.

3. Another example is Peter B. Evans, “State, Capital, and the Transformation of Dependence: The Brazilian Computer Case,” World Development 14, no. 7 (1986):791–808.

4. One of the few exceptions is the work developed under the leadership of Hebe Vessuri in Venezuela. See La ciencia periférica: ciencia y sociedad en Venezuela, edited by Elena Díaz, Yolanda Texera, and Hebe Vessuri (Caracas: Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo and Monte Avila Editores, 1983); and Ciencia académica en la Venezuela moderna, edited by Hebe Vessuri (Caracas: Fondo Editorial Acta Científica Venezolana, 1984). See also Simon Schwartzman, Formação da Comunidade Científica no Brasil (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro: Companhia Editora Nacional and FINEP, 1979).