On the Nature and Endings of Latin America's Industrial Policies Interview with Robert Kaufman and Adolfo Meisel
| Autor | Andrés Álvarez - Carlos Andrés Brando |
| Páginas | 69-73 |
On the Nature and Endings of
Latin America’s Industrial Policies
Interview with Robert Kaufman
and Adolfo Meisel
By Andrés Álvarez & Carlos Andrés Brando
https://doi.org/10.7440/res68.2019.06
How to cite: Kaufman, Robert, Adolfo Meisel, Andrés Álvarez
& Carlos Andrés Brando. 2019. “On the Nature and Endings
of Latin America’s Industrial Policies”. Revista de Estudios
Sociales 68: 69-73. https://doi.org/10.7440/res68.2019.06
Andrés Álvarez and Carlos Andrés Brando prepared a
questionnaire for two distinguished scholars in mod-
ern economic and political history of Latin America:
Robert Kaufman and Adolfo Meisel.
Adolfo Meisel is the president of Universidad del Norte
(Barranquilla, Colombia) and professor of Economic
History at the Economics Department of this univer-
sity. He is a former member of the board of directors
of Colombia’s Central Bank (Banco de la República).
Professor Meisel is one of the leading gures of the
New Economic History of Colombia. He has published
pathbreaking articles and books on several aspects
of Colombia’s economic history. He is a specialist in
anthropometrics, regional development, monetary and
banking history, and long-term economic growth.
Robert Kaufman is Distinguished Professor of Politi-
cal Science at Rutgers University (New Jersey, United
States). He has been Research Associate at the Harvard
Center for International Aairs, Member of the Insti-
tute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and Research
Fellow at the Collegium Budapest. Professor Kaufman
is a well-established specialist of the analysis of
authoritarianism and democratic transitions, and the
implications of political processes on economic devel-
opment. His most recent book is Dictators and Demo-
crats: Elites, Masses, and Regime Change, co-authored
with Stephan Haggard, and published by Princeton
University Press (2016). He has published several books
related to Latin America’s development, including:
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin
America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe (2008); and
The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (1995),
winner of the Leubert Prize for best book in compar-
ative politics that same year —both coauthored with
Stephan Haggard.
Andrés Álvarez (AA) & Carlos Andrés Brando (CAB):
From around 1930 to the early 1980s most middle-sized
and large Latin American economies underwent rapid
industrial growth and transformation —entailing
economy-wide structural change. However successful
the processes of industrialization, the fact is that at
the outset of the twenty-rst century these industrial
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