The Global Political Economy of Ral Prebisch, Margulis 9780367884796 PB..

The Global Political Economy of Ral PrebischAuthor(s): Matias E. Margulis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367884796, 978-0367884796\nSynopsis\nThe Global Political Economy of Ral Prebisch offers an original analysis of global political economy by examining it through the ideas, agency and influence of one of its most important thinkers, leaders and personalities. Prebischs ground-breaking ideas as an economist the terms-of-trade thesis and the economic case for state-led industrialization changed the world and guided economic policy across the global South. As the head of two UN bodies the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and later the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) he was at the frontline of key NorthSouth political struggles for a fairer global distribution of wealth and the regulation of transnational corporations. \n\nPrebisch increasingly came.