摘要 : It would be difficult, if not impossible, to overstate the relevance that the United Nations Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, CEPAL) and dependency theory... 展开 It would be difficult, if not impossible, to overstate the relevance that the United Nations Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, CEPAL) and dependency theory have had on international debates about inequalities between central and peripheral countries - the very fact that we use these two categories, first coined by CEPAL's executive secretary Raul Prebisch in the 1950s, is telling about how these terms came to be indispensable to describe such situations. Rivers of ink have been dedicated to CEPAL and dependency theory since their consolidation in the 1950s and 1960s and, quite revealingly, the subject keeps attracting the attention of scholars up to this day. Writing a new account of such a commented-upon topic is therefore a considerable challenge, yet Margarita Fajardo greatly succeeds at it, offering in The World that Latin America Created a new, insightful and highly detailed story of the legacy of CEPAL and dependency theory, and its impact on global intellectual history. 收起