Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. In the East-West Salon -- 2. Bearing the Cross of War -- 3. Triumph and Tragedy of Red Vienna -- 4. Challenges and Responses -- 5. The Cataclysm and Its Origins -- 6. "Injustices and Inhumanities" -- 7. The Precariousness of Existence --...

Introduction -- In the East-West salon -- Bearing the cross of war -- Triumph and tragedy of Red Vienna -- Challenges and responses -- The ctaclysm and its origins -- Injustices and inhumanities -- The precariousness of existence -- Epilogue: a lost world of socialism

Probably no region's economists have had greater public visibility or greater impact on regional and national public policy than Latin America's and no region has been more directly affected by the spread of US economics. Economists in the Americas joins a small but important comparative...