Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The UN trade and development debates of the 1940s
  • The UN recruits economists
  • Michal Kalecki, the "World Economic Report" and McCarthyism
  • From full employment to economic development
  • The early terms-of trade controversy
  • ECLA, industrialization and inflation
  • Competitive coexistence and the politics of modernization
  • The birth of UNCTAD
  • UNCTAD under Raúl Prebisch: success or failure?
  • World monetary problems and the challenge of commodities
  • The conservative counterrevolution of the 1980s
  • What lessons for the future?