Dependency Theory After Fifty Years: The Continuing Relevance of Latin American Critical Thought

Claudio Katz

Brill, 2022 - Dependency - 284 pages

This book received the Libertador Prize for Critical Thought (2018), demonstrating a renewal of interest in Dependency Theory. That conception initially included distinct forms of Marxism, liberalism, and developmentalism that should be differentiated, despite sharing the same name. The later retreat of that approach contrasts with the growing present-day relevance of its postulates; Latin America bears the effects of dependency even more acutely than in the past, making it imperative to understand the logic of its peripheral subordination. Dependency Theory in its original form is insufficient for explaining contemporary reality; it must be updated to interpret the current modalities of dependent capitalism. This book offers analytical clues to that reinvention.

About the author

Claudio Katz is a research professor at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. He is the author of numerous books and articles on economics, politics, and Latin American society. His views are synthesized in Neoliberalismo, neo-desarrollismo, socialismo(2015, Batalla de Ideas).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dependency Theory After Fifty Years: The Continuing Relevance of Latin American Critical Thought; Volume 207 of Studies in critical social sciences, ISSN 1573-4234
• Author: Claudio Katz
• Translated by: Stanley Malinowitz
• Publisher: Brill, 2022
• ISBN: 9004471731, 9789004471733
• Length: 284 pages