Съдържание:
  • Part I. Theoretical perspectives. Section I. Contending perspectives on market failure and government failure. The origins of structuralism / H.W. Arndt
  • Government failures in development / Anne 0. Krueger
  • What Washington means by policy reform / John Williamson
  • How can states foster markets? / Brian Levy
  • Improving the state's institutional capability / Sanjay Pradhan. Section II. Explanations of government policy. The method of analysis : modern political economy / Jeffry A. Frieden
  • Political models of macroeconomic policy and fiscal reforms / Alberto Mesina
  • Understanding economic policy reform / Dani Rodrik
  • What do we know about the political economy of economic policy reform? / Stephan Haggard and Steven B. Webb
  • Uses and limitations of public choice / Barbara Geddes
  • Part II. Applications. Section III. The political economy of growth since independence. Obstacles to economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico / John H. Coatsworth
  • Economic retardation in nineteenth-century Brazil / Nathaniel H. Leff
  • Factor endowments, institutions, and differential paths of growth among new world economies / Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
  • Latin American manufacturing and the First World War / Rory Miller
  • Latin America in the 1930s / Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro. Section IV. Foreign trade and industrial policy. Import substitution industrialization / Eliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege
  • Was Latin America too rich to prosper? / James F. Mahon
  • The case for trade liberalization in developing countries / Rudiger Dornbusch
  • The origins of Mexico's free trade policy / Manuel Pastor and Carol Wise
  • The political economy of MERCOSUR / Luigi Manzetti. Section V. Foreign capital and the macroeconomy. Forms of external capital and economic development in Latin America : 1820-1997 / Werner Baer and Kent Hargis
  • External debt and macroeconomic performance in Latin America and East Asia / Jeffrey D. Sachs
  • Inflows of capital to developing countries in the 1990s / Guillermo A. Calvo, Leonardo Leiderman, and Carmen M. Reinhart
  • Foreign direct investment in developing countries : progress and problems / Joel Bergsman and Xiaofang Shen
  • The political economy of foreign direct investment in Latin America / Stephan Haggard. Section VI. Political institutions and economic policy. Challenging the conventional wisdom / Barbara Geddes
  • Democratic institutions, economic policy, and development / Stephan Haggard
  • A game theoretic model of reform in Latin American democracies / Barbara Geddes
  • International capital flows and the politics of central bank independence / Sylvia Maxfield
  • Preemptive strike : central bank reform in Chile's transition from authoritarian rule / Delia M. Boylan. Section VII. Social and environmental issues. Facing up to inequality in Latin America / Interamerican Development Bank
  • Income distribution, capital accumulation, and growth / UNCTAD
  • Public finance from a gender perspective / Ingrid Palmer
  • The political economy of environmental policy reform in Latin America / David Kaimowitz
  • National factor markets and the macroeconomic context for environmental destruction in the Brazilian Amazon / Steven C. Kyle and Aercio S. Cunha.