Technological change and structuralist analysis

This article analyses the approach which ECLAC has taken to the subject of technology. In this respect, the author identifies two different periods. The first starts with the inception of ECLAC and continues up to the 1970s. This period, during which efforts focused on achieving Latin America’s industrialization, essentially by means of import substitution, was characterized by what (he author terms “technological passivity” on the part of the relevant agents and of mainstream economic thought in the region.