Liberalization and its consequences [electronic resource] : a comparative perspective on Latin America and Eastern Europe / edited by Werner Baer and Joseph L. Love.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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