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...

<P>Introduction </P><P><EM>Anna Chadwick, Eleonora Lozano, Andrés Palacios Lleras, Javier Solana </EM></P><P><STRONG>Part 1 -- The Constitutional Embeddedness of Markets </STRONG></P><P>1. The Constitutional Disembeddedness of Markets </P><P><EM>Anna Chadwick</EM><STRONG> </STRONG></P><P>2. Law of Nature, Law of Man: Economic Theories of Constitutions and the Normative Question...</em></p></p></strong></em></p></p></strong></p></em></p></p>

1. Introduction -- 2. China's growth : from ideology to economic superpower -- 3. China's income inequality : moving up and sustainable? -- 4. India's growth : from Hindu rate to East Asian levels -- 5. India : the issue of inequality -- 6. Singapore's growth : the making of the global...

1. Introduction -- 2. Economic growth and income distribution -- 3. Economic restructuring and rising income inequality -- 4. The effects of the expansion of tertiary education -- 5. The redistributive effect of public housing policy -- 6. Poverty and the working poor -- 7. Immigrants and...