Introduction

The Dependency Perspective: Origins, Themes, Variations

Generic Features of Holistic Dependency

Unorthodox Dependency: Myths and Realities

Specific Features of Unorthodox Dependency

Varieties of Dependency Thinking

Analytic Dependency and a Capitalist Situation (Brazil)

Analytic Dependency and a Socialist Situation (Cuba)

The Consumption of Dependency Ideas in Latin America

Ex-Consumers and Nonconsumers in Latin America

The Consumption of Dependency Ideas in the United States

Politicizing the Academy: The Dependency Movement and LASA

The Dependency Movement and the Impasse in Development Scholarship

References

Index

Robert A. Packenham is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and the author of Liberal America and the Third World.