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BL
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888448
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Essays in the theory of plantation economy.Spanish
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| Main Entry
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Best, Lloyd.
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| Title & Author
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Teoría de la economía de plantación : : una aproximación histórica e institucional del desarrollo del Caribe /\ Lloyd A. Best, Kari Polanyi Levitt ; prólogo de Norman Girvan ; traducción de Graciela Chailloux Laffita y Silvia Odrizola Guitart.
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| Publication Statement
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El Vedado, La Habana, Cuba :: Casa de las Américas,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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Colección Nuestros países.Serie Estudios
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219 pages :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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9592602662
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: 9789592602663
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Abstract
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"This book provides a fascinating insight into the conceptual under-pinnings of the theory of plantation economy initiated by Lloyd Best and Kari Levitt in the 1960s as a basis for analysing the nature of the Caribbean economy. While acknowledging an intellectual debt to Latin American structuralists and also to the work of Dudley Seers and William Demas, the authors develop an original and innovative analytical framework as a counter to more "universalist" models which failed to take account of the Caribbean reality." "Their work identifies the main features of the plantation economy as a hinterland characterized by subordination and dependency on the dominant metropole. Distinguishing between hinterlands of conquest, settlement and exploitation, Best and Levitt analyse the rules that determine this complex relationship with the metropole. Their economic theories are presented against a background of the historical factors that gave rise to the "structural continuity" of Caribbean economies and which now impede meaningful structural transformation."
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Economic development-- Caribbean Area.
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Plantations-- Economic aspects-- Caribbean Area.
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Economic development.
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Economic history.
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Plantations-- Economic aspects.
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Caribbean Area, Economic conditions.
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Caribbean Area.
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| LC Classification
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HC151.B47518 2008
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| Added Entry
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Levitt, Kari.
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