Economía política del desarrollo: algunas contribuciones de josé luis sampedro

Abstract

José Luis Sampedro’s main contributions to critical economic thinking are recovered in this article, which evidence how his ideas are still valid to analyze the official discourse of development. To begin, it will be considered that the contributions of his work deal with the systematic critique of dominant economic ideas by referring to economic, social and political history. The fundamental concepts of development and its understanding of inflation as part of the consequences of the intrinsic nature of capitalism, and its most recent financial expression, are the arguments to which this work refers in order to convey the persistence and exacerbation of financialization in Development projects, keeping the same official discourse away from confronting the problems of underdevelopment that Sampedro had already predicted.