Estudios sobre el subdesarrollo colombiano : comentario crítico

Authors

  • Claes Croner

Abstract

In a recently published book, until now little known outside of Colombia, the writer and economist Mario Arrubla develops three essays that constitute an excellent study of underdevelopment. Both the introduction to the book and the first essay deal with the problem of unemployment. The second article is a more general historical study of the expansion of the capitalist system in the today underdeveloped world. In the third and last chapter, the author studies the development of underdevelopment in "neocolonial" Colombia from the 1930s to the late 1950s and refers to some integrating mechanisms of Colombia and other Latin American countries in the international capitalist structure and the effects of this satellite position on the domestic market and production.

Keywords:

Colombia, Capitalism, Dependence, Developement, Marxist Theory

Author Biography

Claes Croner

Economista sueco que desde hace algún tiempo trabaja en Chile. Ha efectuado estudios sobre problemas de estructura económica y empleo en algunos países latinoamericanos. Entre 1965 y 1968 fue consultor de la OCDE, en París. Entre sus publicaciones destacan: Educationa! policy and planning in Sweden (1967); Occupational and educational structures of the labor force and levels of economic development (coautor, mimeo, 1969: en prensa como libro).

El comentario crítico que sigue fue escrito durante su breve permanencia en Colombia.