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419CHAPTER 15STRUCTURALISM AND DEPENDENCYINTRODUCTIONThis chapter examines why many Latin American countries whose economic devel-opment until the Second World War had been shaped overwhelmingly by agricul-ture and mining embarked on strategies that, instead, made industrialization a toppriority. It looks at the main economic argument that justified this policy shift, called STRUCTURALISM , and the profound implications this would have for the stateand the character of politics in Latin America. The strategies proposed and adoptedby economists to exploit a country s resources are of great importance to the waysin which social and political systems evolve. They determine who will be the mainwinners in a process of economic development and who will be the losers.
STRUCTURALISM AND DEPENDENCY 421 economy as a supplier of agricultural commodities and raw materials from mining (together known …
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