The Genesis of the Economic Development of the Countries of Latin America in the Period of the Colony
The article considers the basic questions of economic complex formation in the Latin American countries in its historical perspective (at the colonial time). This approach makes it possible to highlight causal relationships with a projection on the current state of the economy, to explain the reasons for appearance of certain phenomena and, in a word, to reveal the specific features of the genesis of economic life, that is particularly important in order to examine the practical problems of today. Compact analysis of the factual material contains historical and linguistic details which emphasize the main points and help to focus attention on understanding the essence of the events that took place.