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Empire’s Workshop with Greg Grandin

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The Relationship Between Development and Development in Latin America

In lain america, what begins to happen is that relationship between democracy and developmentis toughts to shatter. The united states has shifted from a policy of encouraging unionization and mobilization and democratization to establishing order. In europe, which didn't have to compete for capital, you know, it had access to massive amounts of public capital,. Didn't feel they needed to suppress its union movement or non communist left in to develop. In latin America, which had no access to the expected marshall plan. Was a time when economists like raoul previs were coming up with the idea of diminishing returns based on dependency theory.

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