The De Development Paradox

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Sugges tus tus what they thought of it like this compensatory mechanism that was going to be able to kind of solve, in some ways, the de development paradox. Yn ultimately, solving the development paradox would require some form of co operation from the first world, or centr yes. And that is something i guess that a, the bendatistas are later going to criticise them about,. A precisely believing that the world economic order in the post war era was built on the assumption that there were going to be international corporation and respect for national autonomy.

Historian Margarita Fajardo on her book The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Fajardo discusses the Latin American economists at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) who conceptualized the division of the global economy between center and periphery, and how that later gave rise to dependency theory and world systems theory. Plus Cuban Revolution and the Alliance for Progress, Allende's democratic road to socialism and right-wing coups in Chile and Brazil—and more. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig