Includes bibliographical references and index.

Economics and investment planning: reflections based on experience in Colombia -- Economic development, research and development, and policy making: some converging views (with Charles E. Lindblom) -- The political economy of import-substituting ind ustrialization in Latin America -- Industrial development in the Brazilian Northeast and the tax credit scheme of Article 34/18 -- Primary products and substitutes: Should technological progress be policed? -- Abrazo versus coexistence -- Second thoughts on the alliance for progress -- Critical comments on foreign aid strategies -- The stability of neutralism -- Foreign aid: a critique and a proposal with Richard M. Bird -- How to divest in Latin America, and why -- Economic policy in underdeveloped countries -- Ideologies of economic development in Latin America -- Obstacles to development: a classification and a quasi-vanishing act -- Underdevelopment, obstacles to the perception of change, and leadership -- The search for paradigms as a hindrance to understanding.

ISBN 0 300 01490 2 Pbk: ¹1.65.