Fernando Ignacio Leiva, Latin American Neostructuralism: The Contradictions of Post-Neoliberal Development (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008)

摘要

As the global economy ground to a halt in 2008, there could have been no more timely a book than Fernando Ignacio Leiva's Latin American Neostructuralism: The Contradictions of Post-Neoliberal Development. In the author's words, the book is 'an effort to formulate an effective antidote' (p. xix) to the pragmatic turn of progressive economic thought in Latin America. The book relays a fascinating account (if Latin American neostructuralism in the 1980s and 1990s, its relation with classic Latin American structuralism from the 1950s and 1960s, as developed by the United Nation's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLA/ CEPAL hereafter CEPAL), and the latest developments in Venezuelan 'twenty-first century socialism' and Bolivian 'Andean-Amazonian capitalism'.