Les racines du sous-développement en Haïti Author: Benoît Joachim

Les racines du sous-développement en Haïti Author: Benoît Joachim Subtitle: Historien économique haïtien Year: 1979 (original pub.); digital edition 2020 (Les Classiques des sciences sociales, UQAC) Publisher: Henri Deschamps, Port-au-Prince, 257 pp. Prix Deschamps 79 Language: French Central Argument Joachim presents a rigorous Marxist-inflected political-economic history tracing Haiti's underdevelopment from the colonial slave system through the independence period and into the twentieth century. His central thesis: Haiti's present underdevelopment is not a natural or cultural condition but the structural product of four-and-a-half centuries of colonial exploitation followed by neo-colonial dependency.