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While her name appears on the cover, Rosemary Thorp makes it clear that Progress, Poverty and Exclusion is the product of what she calls "corporate authorship," a collaborative process that has resulted in a work of unusual scope and depth. During its preparation, workshops were held to examine periods of Latin American economic history where Thorp found major gaps in the comparative literature. Those meetings yielded a wealth of papers on the export boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, on Latin America during the Great Depression and on the "black legend" of the state's role in the region's postwar industrialization. Thorp filled in other pieces of the puzzle by commissioning a series of papers on individual countries and issues. Finally, an advisory committee of 20 senior economists from Latin America, the United States and Europe reviewed the manuscript and offered written comments. The handsomely produced book is generously illustrated with historic photographs, many of them never previously published.
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