Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2022
The publication of the English edition of Cardoso and Faletto (1979) is a “happening,” an “event.” Consider the following:
Of all the approaches to development, particularly Latin American development, of the last fifteen years, none has had deeper or more pervasive influence, especially in the United States, than the dependency perspective.
An earlier version of this article was presented at the Stanford-Berkeley Colloquium on Latin American Studies, Stanford, California, 29 May 1980. It is a byproduct of a larger study of the nature, context, and consequences of the dependency perspective in general and Cardoso's work in particular. The larger study has been supported at various times by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Fellows Program of the Hoover Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Institute for the Study of World Politics. Responsibility for the views expressed here is entirely my own.