The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch

Matias E. Margulis is Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Stirling, UK. A former Canadian delegate to the WTO, OECD and United Nations agencies, his research focuses on global governance, international trade and human rights. Recent publications include 'Canada at the G8 and UN Committee on World Food Security: forum-shifting in global food security governance' (Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 2015), 'Trading Out of the Global Food Crisis? The WTO and the Geopolitics of Food Security' (Geopolitics, 2014) and Land Grabbing and Global Governance (2014, edited with Nora McKeon and Saturnino Borras, Jr.).

Foreword Edgar J. Dosman

Introduction: the global political economy of Raúl Prebisch Matias Margulis

PART I: Prebisch as architect and theorist of the global political economy

1. Development through tighter economic integration: how might Prebisch size up some trends and issues thus far into the twenty-first century? P. Sai-wing Ho

2. Thinking globally from the periphery: Raúl Prebisch and the world system Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano

3. Raúl Prebisch and the theory of regional economic integration José Briceño Ruiz

4. The Latin American origins of Bretton Woods Eric Helleiner

PART II: Power and resistance in the global political economy

5. Raúl Prebisch and the historical roots of the current movement against corporate-led globalisation Robin Broad and Zahara Heckscher

6. From Palais de Nations to Centre William Rappard: Raúl Prebisch and UNCTAD as sources of ideas in the GATT/WTO Erin Hannah and James Scott

7. The West remains on top, economically and politically Robert H. Wade

PART III: Diagnosing structural change in the global political economy

8. A changing role for agriculture in global political economy? Brazil’s rise as an agro-power Kristen Hopewell

9. Back to the future reloaded: Latin America’s development strategy during the commodity boom Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Matías Vernengo

10. Rául Prebisch and the terms of trade: how things have changed…. Raphael Kaplinsky and Masuma Farooki