Liberalization and its consequences a comparative perspective on Latin America and Eastern Europe
The essays in this volume describe, analyse and compare the achievements and the failures of societies that adopted market-based economies within a democratic polity after a long period of communist rule (Russia and Eastern Europe) or military authoritarianism (Latin America). Together, they also tr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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c2000
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| Summary: | The essays in this volume describe, analyse and compare the achievements and the failures of societies that adopted market-based economies within a democratic polity after a long period of communist rule (Russia and Eastern Europe) or military authoritarianism (Latin America). Together, they also trace the rocky course of liberal economic policies over the whole twentieth century 1. Introduction -- 2. Economic performance and the state in Latin America -- 3. Rethinking economic performance in Central and Eastern Europe, 1870-1989 -- 4. Economic transition in Eastern Europe -- 5. How much. does the past count? -- 6. Hungary's post-communist development in comparative perspective -- 7. Trajectories of East European transformation -- 8. Neo-liberalism revisited in the light of the Brazilian crisis -- 9. The Russian oligarchs -- 10. Privatizing the commons -- 11. Privatizing and the public interest -- 12. The neo-liberal experiment in Latin America -- 13. Institutions and property rights across time and space |
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| Physical Description: | x, 323 p |
| ISBN: | 9781840644364 9781781952832 1840644362 |