Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...

"Engaging essay focuses on hypothesis that capitalist industrial conversion and technological modernization have driven Latin American crisis and promoted a new pattern of capitalist reproduction specializing in export production. Explains that development of this pattern depends on...