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Models of Capitalism Lessons for Latin America

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ISBN-10: 0271023414

ISBN-13: 9780271023410

Edition: 2002

Authors: Evelyne Huber

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The contributors to this volume examine why some societies with market economies perform much better than others and what the less successful countries can learn from the more successful ones.
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Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 8/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Torin Monahan is associate professor in the Department of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity.Evelyne Huber is the Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Posing the Question
An Emerging Model of Capitalism in Latin America?
Alternative Models of Capitalism in Latin America
Trade Policies, Growth, and Equity in Latin America
Industrial Competitiveness Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s
Investment Promotion Policies in Latin America
Models of Welfare and Models of Capitalism: The Limits of Transferability
Jobs and Solidarity: Challenges for Labor Market Policy in Latin America
Models of Capitalism in East Asia
The East Asian Model of Economic Policy
Lessons from Southeast Asia: Growth, Equity, and Vulnerability
Labor Exclusion and Privatized Welfare: Two Keys to Asian Capitalist Development
Models of Capitalism in Advanced Industrial Societies
European Welfare State Regimes: Configurations, Outcomes, Transformations
How to Design a Liberal Welfare State: A Comparison of Canada and the United States
Work, Training, or the Dole? Active and Passive Labor Market Policies in Western Europe
Governing Labor Markets: The U.S. Model
Conclusion: Actors, Institutions, and Policies
Index