Main description: Few observers of Mexico and Brazil in the 1930s, or South Korea and Taiwan in the mid-1950s, would have predicted that these nations would become economic "miracles" several decades later. These newly industrializing countries (NICs) challenge much of our conventional wisdom...

The wave of neoliberal economic reforms in the developing world since the 1980s has been regarded as the result of both severe economic crises and policy pressures from global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Using comparative evidence from the initiation and...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Political Economy of Currency Choice -- CHAPTER 1. A Theory of Currency Policy Preferences -- CHAPTER 2. The United States: From Greenbacks to Gold, 1862-79 -- CHAPTER 3. The United States: Silver Threats among the Gold,...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1. Understanding Residential Tourism -- Chapter 2. Spatial Interpretations: Seeing Landscape, Sensing Place -- Chapter 3. Locating Boquete in Space and Time -- Chapter 4. Longing for Landscape: Assessing Residential Tourists’ Experiences of...