This work draws attention to the clear contrast between the intensity and evolution of the crisis of the thirties and the one that bursts into the early eighties, originating the so-called "lost decade" which has not yet been overcome. While analysing the role played by the central economies in...

In Chile, the export growth and diversification of the neoliberal period was supported by three main economic sectors: fresh fruit and vegetables, forestry, and fishery. The development of these sectors was based on programs which combined private and public efforts. The copper nationalization...