Apuntes 23

The articles in this issue: Present the last public speech given by Dr. César Pacheco Vélez (1929-1989), on the occasion of the launch of his book Perú Promesa; Analyze the economic policy of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party and its theoretical foundations; Propose a structuralist model for the Peruvian economy, which aims to capture its key features and account for the rise and fall of the heterodox regime; Study the genesis of the concept of development at the start of the 20th century and U.S. notions of prosperity, suggesting the conditions in which peace and prosperity can be achieved in the Third World; Develop a framework of analysis to measure exchange-rate expectations in Peru; Draw conclusions about the stability of a short-term money demand function for the Peruvian economy from 1976 to 1987, and test the hypothesis of instability; Analyze the evolution of the Peruvian industrial sector over the period 1958-1969 based on primary-export and import-substitution models ; Assess the paradox of Velasquismo, which was unable to co-opt Peruvian workers despite being one of the governments that most benefited them; Present a valuable document written by General Guillermo Miller about a journey that he made in July of 1835 to the east of Cuzco, one of the first attempts to colonize the Peruvian Amazon in the early 20th century.