Development alternatives or alternatives to development

Abstract

This article goes into the historical conflicts that have led to economic analysis associated to the idea of development, seeking to problematize it in the current economic, political and social crisis and tranformation scenario. Recent debates on the appropriate economic model to address change return to theoretical debates that we analyze here from a critical perspective, associated to new political alternatives that have emerged in Latin America and Europe. The current capitalist economic crisis re-locates the developmental economic school within a context of limited effectiveness, where economic models implemented so far show little permanence or stability. In that sense, this text attemps to address the scope and coherence of new social and political movements that present an anti-capitalist alternative to development.