Table of Contents:
  • Economics and investment planning: reflections based on experience in Colombia
  • Economic development, research and development, and policy making: some converging views (with Charles E. Lindblom)
  • The political economy of import-substituting industrialization in Latin America
  • Industrial development in the Brazilian Northeast and the tax credit scheme of Article 34/18
  • Primary products and substitutes: Should technological progress be policed?
  • Abrazo versus coexistence
  • Second thoughts on the alliance for progress
  • Critical comments on foreign aid strategies
  • The stability of neutralism
  • Foreign aid: a critique and a proposal with Richard M. Bird
  • How to divest in Latin America, and why
  • Economic policy in underdeveloped countries
  • Ideologies of economic development in Latin America
  • Obstacles to development: a classification and a quasi-vanishing act
  • Underdevelopment, obstacles to the perception of change, and leadership
  • The search for paradigms as a hindrance to understanding.