Nuevas estrategias para el desarrollo de América Latina

• Domingo Felipe Maza Zavala Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales-Universidad Central de Venezuela, Banco Central de Venezuela, Caracas-Venezuela

Keywords: development model, economic history, economic thought, economic reality, Latin America.

Abstract

In Latin America, economic history shows cycles, not only of economic thought, but also of economic reality. It does not refer to economic cycles, to periodic fluctuations in economic activity; refers to another class of cycles, more properly stages in the development of the Latin American economy, that mark milestones in regional history, and that, with some characteristics, allow determining historical sequences that could be assimilated to development models, each one of them. which has had a gestation, a rise and a decline, until it is replaced by another model or stage of development. Such has been the history of this region. These models have not emerged from deliberate purposes, or from structures of thought, or from policies that have pursued those objectives, but, to a large extent, such models have been shaped in the course of reality itself, in economic, social events. and political; and that only the researcher or analyst of this historical development can observe or extract certain characteristics, which allow it to be identified as a model or a stage in that development. It is worth saying, then, that history is not forged by virtue of the planning of the models that have been had, but rather that internal and external factors have been determining, in one way or another, this historical sequence.