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Center and Periphery w/ Margarita Fajardo

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Prebish's Theory of Capitalism

The concepts of centre and perphyry, when we hear them to day, sound very marxest. But at the time of sepal's founding, or when prebish took over, he had developed these ideas while working for the society of e rural arentina. He also served as central banker under the authoritarian government that was later overthrown by peron. And so he was in this very sort of constrained concept. Tha, as you say, clearly has nothing to do with marxism. But there's some literature that talks about this kind of early context of previtand how some ideas that he was circulated within the circles that he had.

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