Reactions to the Market: Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China - Couverture rigide

Enríquez, Laura J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0271036192 ISBN 13 : 9780271036199

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Reactions to the Market It is manifest in developing countries around the world that the "shock" therapy administered to their economies by the neoliberal model of structural adjustment has failed, leaving much social and economic destruction in its wake. In Latin America this failure has led to a resurgence of interest in alternative models, some of them deploying various versions of socialism, as in Bolivia, Chile, and Venezuela, which has given rise to talk about the new "pink tide" enveloping the region. In this comparative study of four economies that have been making a transition to the market from their orthodox socialist pasts, Laura Enriquez focuses our attention on the pl...

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Laura J. Enríquez is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0271036192
• ISBN 13: 9780271036199
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256