"Twenty articles on a wide range of major economic issues facing the region. Includes sections on economic history, inflation, balance of payments, transnational corporations, development strategies (e.g., import substitution, export-led growth), income distribution, labor markets, and the role...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Ausländische Unternehmen und einheimische Eliten in Lateinamerika: Ansätze zur Interpretation historischer Erfahrungen und aktueller Tendenzen / Fischer, Thomas -- Teil I: Von der Unabhängigkeit bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts -- Las élites nacionales, el estado y...