Alexander Scott speaks with LAP founding editor Ronald Chilcote and coordinating editor Joana Salem Vasconcelos to discuss their double issue of LAP "Reassessing Development: Past and Present Marxist Theories of Dependency and Periphery Debates," published in January and March of 2022. Topics covered include the founding and origins of the journal Latin American Perspectives, the history of dependency theory, the importance of marxist political-economic analysis, and how scholars have begun to return to marxist theories of dependency.

The January and March 2022 issue(s) of LAP can be accessed through Sage publishing: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/lapa/49/1

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