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Modern Political Economy and Latin America Theory and Policy

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ISBN-10: 0813324181

ISBN-13: 9780813324180

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jeffry A. Frieden, Michael Tomz, Jeffry A. Frieden

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This is a reader that applies the newest debates in political economy to the analysis of Latin America in a way that is thematically and theoretically cohesive.
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Book details

List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.034

Jeffry A. Frieden is professor of government at Harvard University. His books include "Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery"; "World Politics: Interests, Interactions, Institutions"; "Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century "(all Norton); and "Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985" (Princeton).

Acronyms
Introduction Modern Political Economy and the Policy Revolution in Latin America
Theoretical Perspectives
The Origins of Structuralism
Government Failures in Development
What Washington Means by Policy Reform
How Can States Foster Markets?
Improving the State's Institutional Capability
The Method of Analysis: Modern Political Economy
Political Models of Macroeconomic Policy and Fiscal Reforms
Understanding Economic Policy Reform
What Do We Know About the Political Economy of Economic Policy Reform?
Uses and Limitations of Rational Choice
Applications
Obstacles to Economic Growth in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Economic Retardation in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Factor Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: a View from Economic Historians of the United States
Latin American Manufacturing and the First World War
Latin America in the 1930s
Import Substitution Industrialization
Was Latin America Too Rich to Prosper? Structural and Political Obstacles to Export-Led Industrial Growth
The Case for Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries
The Origins of Mexico's Free Trade Policy
The Political Economy of Mercosur
Forms of External Capital and Economic Development in Latin America: 1820-1997
External Debt and Macroeconomic Performance in Latin America and East Asia
Inflows of Capital to Developing Countries in the 1990s
Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: Progress and Problems
The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America
Challenging the Conventional Wisdom
Democratic Institutions, Economic Policy, and Development
A Game Theoretic Model of Reform in Latin American Democracies
International Capital Flows and the Politics of Central Bank Independence
Preemptive Strike: Central Bank Reform in Chile's Transition from Authoritarian Rule
Facing Up to Inequality in Latin America
Income Distribution, Capital Accumulation, and Growth
Public Finance from a Gender Perspective
The Political Economy of Environmental Policy Reform in Latin America
National Factor Markets and the Macroeconomic Context for Environmental Destruction in the Brazilian Amazon
Acknowledgments
Index