Year: 1987
Type: article
Abstract: In revisiting Latin America to gather impressions for this essay, I soon convinced myself that the most conspicuous characteristic of the region's recent experience is diversity and that the most interesting stories to be told are about specific, often contrasting experiences of individual countries. So, except for the first and last sections, I shall not deal here with Latin America in overall terms. Rather, I shall present a series of loosely connected and necessarily brief “exercises” in comparative political economy. Not surprisingly, primary attention will be given to the four countries I visited this time: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. My endeavor throughout will be to gain some perspective on current or recent issues by tying them into events and discussions of earlier decades.
Source: Latin American Research Review
Author: Albert O. Hirschman
Institution: Institute for Advanced Study
Language: English
Topic: Economic Theory and Policy
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4312331589