“Multinational Corporations and Dependent Underdevelopment in Mineral-Export Economies”, Social and Economic Studies, 19, 4 (December 1970), pp. 490-526. This paper was first published under the same title by the Economic Growth Center of Yale University, as Center Paper No. 182, 1970.

The purpose of this paper is to establish a framework for the analysis of the anatomy of dependent underdevelopment for economies which are structured around mineral-export industries operated by large multinational firms. In Hinterland America, the economies of Venezuela, Chile, Suriname, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad-Tobago and the Dutch Antilles all fall into this category to a greater or lesser degree…

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