1st Edition
Setbacks and Advances in the Modern Latin American Economy
Introduction
Pablo A. Baisotti
1. Why Do Latin American Countries Suffer from Long-Term Economic Stagnation?
Pierre Salama
2. Refeudalization in Latin America: On Social Polarization and the Money Aristocracy in the 21st Century
Olaf Kaltmeier
3. New Patterns of Political and Economic Dependency: The China–Latin America Relationship
Juan Carlos Gachúz Maya and María Paula M. Aguilar Romero
4. The Argentine Foreign Debt: A Recursive Trap in Two Hundred Years Fighting for Sovereignty
Mario Rapoport and Noemí Brenta
5. End of the Cycle: The International Court of Justice Ruling in the Case of Chile and Bolivia and Its Commercial Implications
Loreto Correa Vera
6. Economic History, Developmentalism and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Brazil
Gustavo Oliveira and Ivan Daniel Müller
7. Capitalism and Labor Exploitation in Brazil: Human Trafficking and Slave Labor
Élio Gasda
8. The Latin American Economies Since c.1950: Ideas, Policy and Structural Change
Colin M. Lewis
9. The Dependency Hypothesis: A Theoretical Moment in Latin American Thought
Felipe Lagos-Rojas and Edward L. Tapia
10. The Transnational Endeavor of ECLAC for the Latin American Development
Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro
11. The Evolution of Capital Markets in Latin America
John C. Edmunds
12. Workers' Self-Management in Latin America: From the First Cooperatives to the Workers’ Recuperated Enterprises
Andrés Ruggeri
13. Economic Policies and Development in Chile: From Dictatorship to Democracy, 1973–2013
Ricardo Ffrench-Davis
14. The Economic Development of Costa Rica Based on Public Policies from 1920 to 2020: The Model of Social Economy with a Sustainable and Cooperative Approach
Federico Li Bonilla and Monserrat Espinach Rueda
Biography
Pablo A. Baisotti is currently a Research Assistant at the Department of Latin American Studies (ELA) at the University of Brasilia and an external Professor at the Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies at the University of Warsaw.
