Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-marketeers

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MIT Press, 2006 - 250 páginas
"Santiso describes the creation in Chile and Brazil of institutions and policies that are connected to social realities rather than to theories found in economics textbooks. Mexico too has created its own fiscal and monetary policies and institutions, and it has the additional benefit of being a party to NAFTA. Santiso outlines the development strategies unfolding in Latin America, from Chile and Brazil to Colombia and Uruguay - strategies anchored externally by treaties and trade agreements and internally by strong fiscal and monetary institutions and policies. And he charts the less successful trajectories of Argentina, Venezuela, and Bolivia, which are still in thrall to utopian "miracle cures."" "Santiso's account of this emerging transformation describes Latin America at a crossroads. Beginning in 2006, elections in Brazil, Mexico, and elsewhere may signal whether Latin America will decisively choose the political economy of the possible over the political economy of the impossible."--BOOK JACKET.

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The Unfolding Future of Latin American Utopias
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Structural Adjustments as Temporal Adjustments
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From Liberalism
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Javier Santiso is Professor of Economics at ESADE Business School, Spain, and Vice Presidentof the ESADE Center for the Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo). Previously he was the ChiefEconomist for Latin America and Emerging Markets at BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) and ChiefDevelopment Economist and Director General of the OECD Development Centre. He studied in Paris atSciences Po, at Oxford University, and at Harvard University, and he holds an MBA and a PhD. He is aYoung Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He is the author of Latin America'sPolitical Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers (MITPress, 2006).

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