Latin American structuralism: A methodological perspective
从方法论角度梳理拉丁美洲结构主义的核心主张，将其置于皮亚杰、列维-斯特劳斯和乔姆斯基等结构主义传统中，指出其成功在于识别国际经济深层结构，但对国内经济与短期政策分析不足。
Latin American structuralism has played a central role in the debates on economic development theory and policy since the 1950s.The career of Raúl Prebisch has mirrored the trajectory of structuralism and can provide it an historical context. After noting the importance of structuralism, the article isolates its main tenets. It then places Latin American structuralism within the methodological tradition of structuralism which includes writers such as Piaget, Levi-Strauss and Chomsky in other disciplines. Methodological the key to the success of Latin American structuralism is its ability to isolate a deep structure of the international economy and to center its analysis around it. The understanding of the domestic economy and of short-run policy problems is less satisfactory. After a brief eclipse during the late 1970s, Latin American structuralism is currently a vital mode of understanding development problems, in this case through its marriage with a more formal, mathematical approach to knowledge originating in the United States.