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

by Javier Santiso

Book Overview

The political and economic transformation now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies.

Neither socialism nor free-market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America, writes Javier Santiso in this witty and literate reading of that region's economic and political condition. Latin America must...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262693593
• ISBN13: 9780262693592
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher