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Book SynopsisThe first book-length biography of the Argentinian economist who transformed our thinking about first and third world relations.
Trade Review"Best known for his ideas about trade, Raul Prebisch, an Argentine economist who was often talked about as "Latin America's Keynes", may be due for rehabilitation. An invaluable biography." Economist "Mandatory reading for everybody interested in Latin America." Mariano Ben Plotkin, researcher at the Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social in Buenos Aires and professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero "A comprehensive and very readable account of a fascinating personality - this will, for some considerable period and perhaps forever, be the definitive source on Prebisch's personal life and career." Gerry Helleiner, Munk Institute for International Studies, University of Toronto "It is hard to think of a better moment for the appearance of the first full biography of Raul Prebisch, an Argentine who was a towering figure in the international debates on economic development from the 1940s to the 1970s...Mr Dosman has read everything Prebisch wrote and interviewed many of those who were closest to him. His research is exhaustive. In rescuing Prebisch for a new generation, and above all in allowing the reader to separate the man from the myth, he has performed a valuable service for all those interested in economic thinking in Latin America and in the field of international development in general." Economist, 5th March 2009
