Political economy, the role of the state and economic development: a comparison between High-Performing Asian Economies? and Latin America (1950-2019)

JUAN EDUARDO SANTARCANGELO

Osaka

Conferencia; Annual Japan Society History of Economic Thought Conference; 2021

Japan Society History of Economic Thought

This paper aims at comparing the long-term economic performance of the core countries of High-Performing Asian Economies? (HPAE) and Latin America in order to analyze their strategies, the role of the State in this process, and the evolution of their productive specialisation profile under the new international division of labour. This study presents two peculiarities that are rarely present in the literature. First, the long-term perspective from the 1950s until the present-day. Second, it covers a broad set of countries which allows us to derive more general and representative conclusions.