TY - BOOK AU - Hirschman, Albert O. TI - Latin American issues: essays and comments AV - HC165 .H5 U1 - 338.9 PY - 1961/// CY - New York PB - Twentieth Century Fund KW - Economic growth KW - Economic development KW - Latin America N1 - Includes bibliographical footnotes N2 - This volume is a report of a Latin American study group organized by the Twentieth Century Fund for the purpose of exploring Latin American attitudes toward the principal economic problems encountered in the area. The ten essays by various authors emerged from a conference called by the Twentieth Century Fund in 1959-60 to identify the reasons why Latin Americans advocate, adopt, and change economic policies. The book examines: the controversy on inflation between "monetarists" and "structuralists; the usefulness of monetary and fiscal policy in checking inflation and the relation between structural factors and the inflationary process ER -