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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Tale of Three Cassandras: Jean Monnet, Raúl Prebisch, and Adebayo Adedeji
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In Greek mythology, Apollo—the god of prophesy, poetry, and music—gave the beautiful Cassandra the gift of foresight in a bid to seduce her.1 When Cassandra refused his advances, Apollo invoked a curse that her truthful prophesies would not be believed, and that she would be considered mad. The more contemporary tale that we recite here is not one of unrequited love or insanity, but the heroic efforts of three technocratic Cassandras to promote regional integration in Europe, Latin America, and Africa.