From Raúl Prebisch’s “Latin American manifesto” to the present-day: 70 years of structuralism in ECLAC

Abstract

The article combines different texts in which his author has been introducing books on readings on ECLAC’s (CEPAL’s) economic thought, which he has been organizing since 1998. It first presents the methodological and analytical elements that have been central to the Latin American structuralist theoretical construct, both in the structuralist period (1949-1990) and in the neostructuralist one (as from 1990). Next, it briefly synthesizes the evolution of the structuralist thought along its seven decades of existence.