Two Complementary Visions of Latin American Development

Armando Di Filippo is a professor at the Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado de Chile and has taught for Stanford in Santiago since winter 1999. He is an economist devoted to the study of the economic and social development of Latin America and the author of two books. Di Filippo has been a researcher and adviser to the United Nations for thirty years. He is currently a Tinker Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies.

In this talk, he will build a bridge between two versions of institutional economics, and discuss the complementary nature of Douglass North and Raul Prebisch's seminal works.