1. Crime and (No) Punishment: Business Corporations and Dictatorships -- 2. Business and the Military in the Argentine Dictatorship (1976-1983): Institutional, Economic, and Repressive Relations -- 3. Building the Dictatorship: Construction Companies and Industrialization in Brazil -- 4....

The presence of foreign banks in emerging markets has increased markedly over the last two decades, raising questions about their potentially stabilizing or destabilizing role during times of financial distress. Most studies on this subject have focused on banks’ asset side (i.e., their...

Introduction -- Why a History of Ideas on Industry? 1. Post Bellum. The Beginnings of 'Industrialism' and the Revista de Economía Argentina (1914-1930) 2. Post Crisis: The Construction of a Consensus: State Intervention and Industrialization (1930-1940) 3. In bello. Wartime Alternatives...

1. The emergence of neo-liberalism in Latin America : situating the Argentine experience -- 2. State performance and institutional capacity in development -- 3. The Argentine crisis : what happened? -- 4. Stabilization in 2002 : stopping the free fall into poverty -- 5. Electing a new government...

This study of Argentina over the past 25 years confronts two questions: Why has Argentina, one of Latin America's wealthiest and most developed nations, failed so tragically to reconcile economic modernization and liberal democracy? Why have authoritarian regimes failed even more spectacularly...

As populations age and revenues diminish, government and private pension funds around the world are facing insolvency. The looming social security crisis is especially dire for women, who live longer than men but have worked less in the formal labor force. This groundbreaking study examines...