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| Author: | Dawsey, J. M. |
| Title: | Liberation Theology and Economic Development |
| Journal: | American Journal of Economics and Sociology
2001 : VOL. 60:5, p. 203-212 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMISTS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Latin American liberation theology has earned the world's admiration for its heroic stand on behalf of oppressed, marginalized people. But also, from its incipience around 1968, liberation theology has been surrounded by controversy because of its often- unabashed association with Marxist analysis. Today, twenty-five years of oversimplified economic rhetoric, especially concerning dependency theory, the recent disintegration of the Soviet bloc, and the loss of confidence in command economies, even in Cuba, have caused liberationists to re-evaluate the economic theories that underpin much of their thought. In the following pages, the author plans to address this small and, he think, fortuitous crisis by suggesting that the American economist Henry George has much to offer liberation theology. |
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