The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901-1986 Review

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(More customer reviews)The book is a tome of about 500 pages (and the author might have been able to cut it down to 400), but overall it provides a really interesting look at a number of things I'm interested in such as:
1) the evolution of development economics, with the Argentine economist Prebisch being considered by many to be the "godfather" of development economics
2) intra-Latin America relations, Latin America-worldwide relations, and Latin America-US relations throughout the 1900s (the years that Prebisch lived)
3) the inter-workings of international policy bodies such as the United Nations and Organization of American States
4) lessons gained from a guy who lost about 9 policy battles for every 1 that he won
The Canadian biographer I thought did a tremendous job of just showing what happened instead of trying to make the biography about him in any way. If you think any of these numbers above could fit holes in your intellectual development, then I would recommend getting around to reading this book sometime.

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Raul Prebisch was a leader in economic development theory and international economic policy, an institution builder, and an international diplomat. The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch provides the first book-length account of his life and work, a story cast against the backdrop of Latin America, the Cold War, the rise of the United Nations, and the struggle for equity between first and third worlds. A wunderkind, Prebisch occupied key positions at the Argentine ministry of finance in his twenties and was the general manager of the Argentine Central Bank before forty.Exiled by Juan Peron after World War II, he became arguably the most influential Latin American official at the UN, heading such international organizations as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

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