:''While Raúl Prebisch is widely recognized in international economic circles as one of the founders of the theory and policies for development, in Argentina is still heavily criticized on an unsustantiated ideological basis. Through its lecture one gets a vivid picture of critical times such as the "Década Infame" (Infamous Decade) of 1930-1940 in Argentina, the creation of CEPAL (Economic Commission for Latin America) and UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development). As the story unfolds, one gradually realizes Prebisch's main "sin": believing that well meaning, trained and documented professionals, based on stable institutions, capable of making sound economic analysis and well sustantiated proposals, can change the social conditions of whole countries. As history shows, technocrats (or well meaning elites) can perphaps temporarily change the methods of governments, but almost surely not its usually selfish goals. Each reader may find its own moral; mine is that the only sure road to development, although a long one, is -as Domingo Faustino Sarmiento pointed out- educating the "sovereign": the ignorant masses that uncritically support the very same clientelistic regimes that in the end submerge them more and more.''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0773534121/ref=cm_rdp_product]
==Plan Prebisch==La dictadura militar de la Revolución Libertadora requirió a Prebisch la elaboración de un diagnóstico y recomendaciones sobre la economía argentina. El Informe Prebisch, como fue denominado por la prensa, generó ríspidas discusiones entre los empresarios, los partidos políticos y el estudiantado universitario de la época. Entre las recomendaciones se contaban: * Restablecer la iniciativa privada como fuerza impulsora de la economía argentina.* Intensificar la estrategia sustitutiva de importaciones mediante el impulso a las industrias siderúrgica, metalmecánica y química básica.* Mantener el control estatal de YPF y los ferrocarriles.* Privatizar empresas estatales como las del grupo [[DINIE]]. ===Fuentes===* {{:Belini&Rougier EEIA}}; pp.104 105.* [[BCRA]]; ''Memoria Anual. Año 1955''; Buenos Aires; 1956; p. LIX. ==Fuentes generales==
* Dosman, Edgar J.; ''The life and times of Raul Prebisch, 1901-1986''; McGill-Queen's University Press; Canadá; 2008; ISBN-10: 0773534121 ISBN-13: 978-0773534124. Texto de 599 páginas, en inglés.