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...Laura Randall Latin American Inflation: The Structuralist-Monetarist Debate . By Wachter Susan M. . Lexington, Massachusetts , 1976 . D. C. Heath and Company . Graphs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 165 . Cloth. $13.50 . Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press...

... The collection of essays that comprises this book is welcome because, in the midst of analyses and recommendations currently dominated by neoliberal theory, it represents an attempt to revive the structuralist school. From the early days of CEPAL, this school has exerted a profound influence in Latin America...

... use of refined statistical data, the author seeks to provide a definitive conclusion to the controversy that raged between monetarist and structuralist economists over the Brazilian case in the late 1960s. Though disagreement will continue, he has greatly strengthened the empirical foundations...

...Evelyn Picon Garfield The “Preamble” clearly demonstrates the present dilemma of many Latin American literary critics torn between pre-structuralist, structuralist, and post-structuralist methodologies. Roberto González Echevarría, despite his desire to avoid a unified interpretation...

.... Maps. Tables. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 370 pp. Cloth , $32.95 . Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Myths of Ancient Mexico provides an analysis of Mesoamerican mythology based on the structuralist procedures applied to North and South American data in Lévi...

...—Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, with a separate chapter on Cuba and less attention to Colombia and Peru. The author is an unreconstructed “structuralist” of the ECLA school, believing that institutional obstacles have had overriding importance in shaping Latin American economic development. His analysis...

... by Duke University Press 1970 For Latin American “structuralists,” the main “source” of inflation in Latin America is shifting and increasing demands coupled with substantial supply rigidities. One group lays particular stress on the role of agricultural “bottlenecks” and their effects on food...

... recent stabilization program, Frei’s, attempted to apply structuralist theory and all three programs failed, the experience of each has been of great value to the evolution of inflation theory and methods for dealing with the problem. Sierra and his collaborators are concerned with the fact...

... unchanged from the first edition (1970), readers should refer to this reviewer’s comments on that edition published in the HAHR (February 1972). Furtado has chosen to maintain his structuralist approach, even where more recent data, as on the growth of agricultural output (pp. 141-144), seems to suggest...

... differed widely within each of these groups. As might be expected, the sum of the work adds up to more than the whole presented previously by the structuralists. Building on the pioneer studies of Italian immigration by Samuel Baily and Fernando Devoto, the scholars included in this work turn to new...

... of ECLA with industrial interests, save as the latter happened to benefit from a dynamic process indispensable to general development. He also denies a populist bias, since populism failed to produce the penetrating analysis of social problems that was ECLA’s aim. In a critique of the structuralist...

... University Press 1978 A keen intelligence confronts in this work an enormously convoluted problem. The result is a romp through the milpa of Tezcatlipoca, and a brilliant and exasperating exploration of Mexican mythology. The method is declared to be “structuralist.” In practice this means...

.... Only two merit mention. First, the historical background rests on an obsolete structuralist argument that the Revolution originated in the far north and Morelos, rather than dealing with the more generalized, unstructured violence that prevailed. Ironically, the structuralist perspective undermines...

..., as they often have in other post-structuralist-inspired histories. We get few examples of the pressures from below which she periodically insists fueled liberal bids for power. The exception is the chapter that examines women’s requests to the Junta de beneficencia for child support. Here, Martínez-Vergne...

... scholarship and charts both Van Young's intellectual trajectory and that of Mexican / Latin American historiography, the two sharing, he plausibly argues, a common trend away from big economic and social (“structuralist”) analysis and toward more individual and elusive cultural themes — a shift, as he puts...

... system of Cuzco are striking, fully displaying the classical structuralist traits of idealized systems of dualism and tripartition, attention to kinship structures and patterns of marriage as exchange, and a commitment to tracing continuities of structures and their transformations over time...

... Spanish, especially that of the rural center. His method is that of the structuralists: he identifies the phonemes of the dialect with their corresponding allophones, pointing out oppositions and both free and complementary distribution. His treatment of the morphology is more traditional and actually...

... treatment of sociopolitical topics, rather than with reference to rhetorical, stylistic, or structural accomplishments. By contrast to recent research by “committed” critics who nevertheless are using structuralist models for dealing with the issues of poetic discourse, Bizzarro’s study represents a return...

..., philosopher, sociologist, political thinker, and major influence on historians continues to grow. Conversely, the authority of conservative intellectuals has receded to insignificance. This book should serve notice to North American historians that we must be conversant with social structuralists...

... on or off the gold standard. This study, therefore, should serve to strengthen the case of the “structuralists” as against the “monetarists” in their search for remedies to present-day economic ills. Lest anyone be misled by the title, this book is not a history of economic relations between Britain...