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This paper identifies the similarities and differences among Latin American structuralism, dependency theory, and Thorstein Veblen's Imperial Germany (1915), exploring the connection on such as aspects as path dependency, technology, and economic policy. Imperial Germany is similar to many of the principal policy recommendations espoused by the structuralists and dependency theorists. Nevertheless, structuralism is closer to the ideas of the institutionalists and Veblen himself. In conclusions, the structuralists and Veblen's version in Imperial Germany agree that an industrial policy ought to be guided by the government, even though Veblen and the institutionalists clearly see social change through technological improvement, which is missing from structuralism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Heterodox Latin American thinking on the development problematic has for several years been engaged in deep debate. Within this framework, the first objective of our study is to review critically the central ideas of what we understand to be the formation of a new consensus on the question known as neo-structuralism or neo-developmentalism, which seeks to be both a criticism of the neo-liberal prescription and an improvement on the old developmentalism. A second objective is to link this review with the analysis of transformations in Argentina’s auto industry. In this way, we seek to show the need to return to the historical method as a way of recognizing the possibilities for development in the Latin American countries within the framework of the international division of labor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 2003 to 2007, the Argentine economy experienced one of its most intensive and extensive phases of growth in recent decades. In this new scenario, small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) registered notable economic performance and recovered the dynamism they had lost in the previous decade. Nevertheless, the Argentine SMEs' limited access to credit markets is a widely recognized phenomenon, which limits the possibilities for the growth and expansion of these companies. This paper analyzes the bank credit effectively extended to the SMEs during the period 2002-2009 in Argentina. It concludes that there is a need for intervention and regulation by the Argentine state in the banking market, as well as a redefinition of credit policies for public entities and other policies focused on improving the financing of these companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article compares the notion of education and its objective, in the thought of Emile Durkheim and Pierre Bourdieu. Firstly, it analyses the influence of Durkheim's sociology on Bourdieu's sociological work, emphasizing especially on the rationalism and the structuralism of both authors. Later a reflection is elaborated on some common points, and simultaneously on the distances that exist between both authors in the approach to the educational question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]