"Monograph by an influential academic researcher and policymaker on the opening of the Colombian economy. The author presents a history of the relationship between economic development and protectionism in Colombia, describes the current process of economic opening, and makes a projection about...

This essay analyzes three contributions of Albert Hirschman that are important to understand the Latin American industrialization process.The first are the features of this process vis-à-vis the “late industrialization” cases in the European continent analyzed by Alexander Gerschenkron. The...