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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Main Author: Love, Joseph LeRoy
Other Authors: Baer, Werner
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar Pub c2000
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520 |a 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 
520 |a 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