...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...

... to Carpentier’s entire work in the aftermath of the structuralist critical climate that had liquidated the author as origin and questioned conventional practices of literary analysis. Nevertheless, his experimental, post-structural approach is, to our delight, a rather traditional, astute, eclectic investigation...

.... 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...

... unpolished study. The case for land reform—as Edel points out—can be made quite independently of the “adequacy” criterion in the restricted structuralist sense. Agriculture’s ability to meet rising demands without price increases may be important for short-run stabilization programs, but this criterion...

... a quantum notch. Over the last fifteen years, concurrently with the evolution of the Structuralist Theory of inflation in the writings of Chilean and foreign economists working on Chile, that country’s government has been involved in a concerted effort to solve the inflation problem. The administrations...

...Thomas E. Skidmore Despite Furtado’s failure to incorporate recent scholarship that does not conform to the structuralist interpretation, this book remains the best single-volume introduction to twentieth-century Latin American economic history. Celso Furtado has performed the valuable...

... 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...

...” countries attained a remarkable coherence. This review is well done and retrospectively adds rigor to the emerging ideas. A useful bibliography, with structuralist interpretations of chronic inflation, including those that originated outside ECLA, is appended. 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...

... study of the traits of Panamanian 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...

... 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...

... factors for her economic well-being and because the basic policy decisions were made by the ruling landed sector which consulted its own interests in placing the country on or off the gold standard. This study, therefore, should serve to strengthen the case of the “structuralists” as against...