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1. El Captulo 18 presenta un perfil de los Titanes de la Economa Internacional (Titans of International Economics) (p. 427), en el que se describe a dos economistas que han influido en las polticas econmicas y laborales a travs de sus artculos y actividades profesionales.
2. Cree un breve resumen en el que compara y contrasta estas dos personalidades en el contexto de la economa internacional. Su resumen tambin debe contestar la pregunta:Publique su resumen en el foro antes del viernes.
   1. Cules son las aportaciones de cada uno de ellos en cuanto al trabajo?

International Economics (8th Ed)(gnv64).pdf - Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (64-bit) X Archivo Edicion Ver Firmar Ventana Ayuda Inicio Herramientas International Econo... x (? A Iniciar sesion A 433 (458 de 850) (+ 66.7% A TITANS OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS: RAUL PREBISCH (1901-1986) AND HANS WOLFGANG SINGER (1910-2006) Raul Prebisch was born on April 17, 1901, in Tucaman, doing his work during the formative years of Keynesian Argentina When he graduated with an economics degree in economics at Cambridge. He served as assistant lecturer in 1923 from the University of Buenos Aires, he had already economics at Manchester University from 1938 to 1945, written nine professional journal articles, the first having as economics research officer in the U.K. Ministry of 52 appeared when he was 17. He was professor of political Town and Country Planning in 1945-1946, and as lecturer economy at his alma mater from 1925 to 1948, also serv- in political economy at Glasgow University in 1946-1947. ing simultaneously as director of economic research for the He then undertook a U.N. career, building and serving in National Bank of Argentina (1927-1930) and undersecretary the Economics Department of the U.N. Secretariat. He became of finance for Argentina (1930-1932), among other posts. professor of economics at the University of Sussex and its He then embarked upon a career with the United Nations, itute of Development Studies in 1969 and remained on the serving as executive secretary of the U.N.'s Economic institute's research team long after his "official" retirement. Commission for Latin America (ECLA) from 1948 to 1962 Professor Singer's early concern was with unemploy- E and as secretary-general of the United Nations Conference ment, and be published Unemployment and the Unemployed on Trade and Development (UNCTAD, an organization in 1940. He then worked on problems of wartime planning. based in Geneva) from 1964 to 1969. He subsequently He subsequently turned to the area of economic develop- became director-general of the U.N.'s Latin American ment and made many contributions, including Economic Institute for Economic and Social Planning. Development of Under-Developed Countries (1950), Dr. Prebisch wrote several influential studies, with par- International Development, Growth and Change (1964), and ticularly noteworthy ones being "Commercial Policy in the Technologies for Basic Needs (1977). Another work used in Underdeveloped Countries" (American Economic Review, higher education was his text Rich and Poor Countries (with Javed A. Ansari, 4th ed., 1988). His most famous article is 4 May 1959), The Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principal Problems (1949), and Towards a New "The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Trade Policy for Development. Report of the Secretary- Countries" (American Economic Review, May 1950). General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Professor Singer's work was of broad scope, extending Development (1964). His thesis of the secular deterioration beyond the terms-of-trade issue to the structure of the world of the terms of trade of LDCs is his most widely cited contri- economy, basic needs, food aid, and technology transfer. He bution, but he was concerned with problems of industrializa- took the lead in spreading knowledge of Third World prob- tion of the LDCs throughout his career. He appears to have lems worldwide. His ideas and efforts served as constant first crystallized the notion of a "center-periphery" in the reminders that there is no "quick fix" to LDC problems and world economy, whereby systematic forces ema nating from that development should be approached from the perspective the center (the ICs) cause great difficulties for the periphery of possible actions in ICs as well as in LDCs. In November (the LDCs). His ability to articulate his views at the interna- 2004, Singer was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement tional agency level has ensured that they have been and will Award from the Development Studies Association be long-lasting. Raul Prebisch was awarded several honorary degrees, Sources: Mark Blaug, ed, Who's Who in Economics: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists 1700-1986, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, including degrees from Columbia University and the Univer- MA: MIT Press, 1986), pp. 696-97, 788 89; Luis E. Di Marco, sidad de los Andes (Colombia). He also received the ed, International Economics and Development: Exsays in Honor Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding inch (New York: Academic Press, 1972). pp. xvii-xix; in 1974, the Dag Hammarskjold Honorary Medal of the Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers, eds., Pioneers in Development German U.N. Association in 1977, and the Third World (New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1984), pp. 173, 273-74; J. G. Palma, "Raul Prebisch," in John Eatwell, Prize of the Third World Foundation in 1981. Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman, eds., The New Palgrave: A Hans W. Singer was born in 1910 in Elberfeld (now Dictionary of Economics, Vol. 3 (London: Macmillan, 1987), pp. Wuppertal), Rhineland, Germany. He earned his diploma in 934-36; Who's Who in the World, Ist ed, 1971-1972 (Chicago: political science from Bonn University in 1931. He received Marquis Who's Who, 1970), p. 746; Who's Who in the World, 10th ed., 1991-1992 (Wilmette, II.: Marquis Who's Who, 1990), p. 1004; his Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in 1936, www.ids.ac.uk/ids. 20 ~ O D O ( () ESP 7:10 PM Escribe aqui para buscar O 2/27/2022