This volume honors Raúl Prebisch's contributions to economic thought and uses his 1970 report Change and Development: Latin America's Great Task as a point of departure for analyzing trends in the region in the 1970s and 1980s. This volume comprises a collection of the papers presented at the...

This short comment on the article by John Marangos welcomes the author's care in distinguishing alternative concepts of the Washington Consensus and distinguishing them in turn from the idea of shock therapy. It discusses several differences between what Marangos terms the “Washington...