The ambivalence of Latin American agriculture / Enrique V. Iglesias. -- Accumulation and creativity / Celso Furtado. -- False dilemmas and real options in current Latin American debate / Aníbal Pinto. -- Economic trends in Central America / Gert Rosenthal. -- Some changes in Unites States attitudes towards CEPAL over the past 30 years / David H. Pollock. -- Protectionism and development / Pedro I. Mendive. -- Socio-economic structure and crisis of peripheral capitalism / Raúl Prebisch.