Dependency Theory - What Did Dependency Theorists Learn From Dependence Theory?

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Dependency theory was newly ascendant elsewhere in the world, including among left wing latin americanists. It also influenced walter rodney's classic, how europe under developed africa. And it was samine, alongside gunderfrank, who in turn helped emmanuel wallerstein and giovanni arigi shape what would come to be known as world systems theory.

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