Root Causes of Haiti’s Underdevelopment

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The Importance of Mental Models

Discussions on Haiti’s underdevelopment often start and end with a catalog of its symptoms and then nothing follows.
Understanding and discussing Haitian history requires more than a Buzzfeed list—empty carbs for the brain.
Complex subjects require mental models.
Here are the four mental models the scholars created: dependency theory, world-system theory, modes of production theory, and plantation economy theory.
During the 1960s and 70s, a group of scholars from the University of the West Indies offered a modified version of the dependency theory, a very useful mental model that helped them understand “…the causes and persistence of underdevelopment in Latin American & the Caribbean.”
We are going to use the modified version of the plantation economy theory to help us understand why Haiti’s underdevelopment remains so stubbornly entrenched.
only the will we see the throughlines between current Haitian underdevelopment and its colonial past.