The paper discusses Evsey Domar's role as a link between economics in the West and in Russia. The Russian heritage he brought with him from Harbin (Manchuria) to the US consisted of an interest in socialism and Russian history. He paid close attention to the 1947 Varga controversy in the USSR....

Introduction / Mario GARCIA-MOLINA and Hans-Michael TRAUTWEIN -- Core and periphery -- Core and periphery in the early cold war : a historical analysis of development theory / Natália BRACARENSE -- Anarchic accumulation, un-effective demand and institutional constraints : Oskar Lange's critique...

The paper offers an historical account of the origins and development of the Latin American structuralist approach to the balance of payments between 1944 and 1964. We focus on the contributions by Raul Prebisch, Celso Furtado and Juan Noyola, all of them members of the United Nations Economic...