Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- Locating the Southern Cone -- Defining political economies and 'models' of capitalist development -- 2 The political economy of capitalist development -- Models of capitalism -- Theories of development -- Globalisation -- Regionalism and regionalisation -- Conclusion -- Part II The contours of Southern Cone development -- 3 Post-war development and regional integration -- Structuralism, ISI and developmentalism -- Regional integration and inward-looking development -- National political economies of industrialisation -- Argentina -- Brazil -- Chile -- Uruguay and Paraguay -- Conclusion: regional integration and development -- 4 Versions of neoliberalism -- Globalisation and neoliberal restructuring -- Argentina -- Brazil -- Chile -- Paraguay -- Uruguay -- Conclusion -- 5 The Mercosur project -- The Mercosur in the 1990s: chronicle of a death foretold? -- The regional crisis from 1999 -- The roots of fragmentation -- Institutionalisation -- Visions of regionalism -- Brazil -- Argentina -- Paraguay and Uruguay -- Chile -- Conclusion -- Part III The emerging regional political economy -- 6 The reconfiguration of regionalist dynamics -- Strategic objectives and external negotiations -- Multilateral negotiations -- Hemispheric negotiations -- Mercosur-EU negotiations -- Negotiations with South American partners -- Developments in institutionalisation -- Policy coordination -- Macroeconomic harmonisation -- Trade policy -- Competition and regulatory policies -- Investment rules -- Industrial policy -- Social policy -- Conclusions -- 7 Labour -- Labour, globalisation and neoliberalism -- Flexibilisation -- Unemployment -- Wage levels -- Informalisation.

Organisation and unionisation -- Skill levels -- National labour politics -- Argentina -- Brazil -- Chile -- Paraguay -- Uruguay -- The regionalisation of labour politics -- The contours of regional labour politics -- Regionalised labour politics and the redefinition of domestic labour relations -- Conclusion -- 8 Business -- Capital flows and restructuring processes -- Business in national political economies -- Argentina -- Brazil -- Chile -- Paraguay -- Uruguay -- Business in the regional political economy -- The contours of market-led regionalisation -- Business politics in the Southern Cone -- Conclusions -- 9 States -- Globalisation and the study of states -- State reform in the Southern Cone -- Argentina -- Brazil -- Chile -- Paraguay -- Uruguay -- Towards a regionalised form of state? -- Conclusions -- Part IV Conclusion -- 10 The Southern Cone Model -- Revisiting the political economy of capitalist development -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Developing an original blend of perspectives from the fields of international and comparative political economy, this book presents an innovative and in-depth account of the contemporary political economy of the southern cone of Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It identifies a new and distinctive model of regional capitalist development emerging in the southern cone and a complex relationship with both the global political economy and the five distinctive national political economies in the region. Ranging across the contours of labour, business, states and regionalist processes, Phillips assesses the significance of the Southern Cone Model for the ways in which we understand contemporary capitalist development at both national and transnational levels.

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