Latin American Neostructuralism and Its Differentiation from Latin American Structuralism

Emilia Ormaechea

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2024, vol. 56, issue 3, 337-354

Abstract: Latin American neostructuralism emerged within the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean by 1990. As such, it was aimed at reviewing original Latin American structuralism and updating those contributions to the new phase of global capitalism. Notwithstanding this institutional point of view, this article argues that neostructuralism did not represent an update to Latin American structuralism but rather a differentiation from its critical and original contributions, which relies mainly on the displacement of the center-periphery concept. In the framework of the neoliberal offensive, this change toward capitalism was the result of the greater influence of theories and approaches generated in the center to problematize Latin America’s development, as well as of the requirement to depoliticize the discussion of development. JEL Classification : B2, B5, O1

Keywords: Latin America; ECLAC; Prebisch; periphery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/04866134241226637

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