ECLAC: Forty years of continuity with change / Gert Rosenthal. -- Agriculture as viewed by ECLAC / Emiliano Ortega. -- Regions as the product of social construction / Sergio Boisier. -- Some notes on the definition of the informal sector/ Martine Guerguil. -- Changes in development styles in the future of Latin America (Seminar in homage to José Medina Echavarría, Santiago, Chile). -- Medina Echavarría and the future of Latin America / Adolfo Gurrieri. -- Political culture and democratic conscience / Enzo Faletto. -- A hopeful view of democracy / Jorge Graciarena. -- The change of orthodoxy and the ideas of Medina Echavarría / Aníbal Pinto. -- New light on the concepts of "private" and "public" / Aníbal Quijano. -- Significance and role of the universities: Medina Echavarria’s view / Aldo Solari. -- Dilemmas of political legitimacy / Francisco C. W effort. -- The social actors and development options / Marshall Wolfe.