LEADER 04790oam 22006014a 450 001 9910777514203321 005 20190503073334.0 010 $a1-282-09691-5 010 $a9786612096914 010 $a0-262-28302-6 010 $a1-4237-7451-5 024 3 $a9780262195423 035 $a(CKB)1000000000461577 035 $a(EBL)3338475 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189618 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11179661 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189618 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10157527 035 $a(PQKB)11074982 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338475 035 $a(OCoLC)69663059$z(OCoLC)182530744$z(OCoLC)474279760$z(OCoLC)614968129$z(OCoLC)648222953$z(OCoLC)722563850$z(OCoLC)728036841$z(OCoLC)743198133$z(OCoLC)815776347$z(OCoLC)888752113$z(OCoLC)939263623$z(OCoLC)961648590$z(OCoLC)962619480$z(OCoLC)988452815$z(OCoLC)992003834$z(OCoLC)1035896374$z(OCoLC)1037441148$z(OCoLC)1037936214$z(OCoLC)1038665367$z(OCoLC)1055387641$z(OCoLC)1058830436$z(OCoLC)1081248528$z(OCoLC)1083599951 035 $a(OCoLC-P)69663059 035 $a(MaCbMITP)4139 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338475 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10173526 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL209691 035 $a(OCoLC)939263623 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000461577 100 $a20060531d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLatin America's political economy of the possible $ebeyond good revolutionaries and free-marketeers /$fJavier Santiso ; translated by Crtistina Sanmarti?n and Elizabeth Murry 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-19542-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-245) and index. 327 $aForeword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Waltzing Paradigms; 1 The Unfolding Future of Latin American Utopias; 2 The Present Decline: Latin America in the Garden of Democratic Delights; 3 Structural Adjustments as Temporal Adjustments; 4 The Chilean Trajectory: From Liberalism to Possibilism; 5 Lula Light; 6 Mexico: The Great Transformation; 7 The Emergence of a Political Economy of the Possible; 8 Argentina and Venezuela: Enduring Neo-Populism; Conclusion: The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Chameleon; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 8 $aAnnotation$bNeither socialism nor free-market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America, writes Javier Santiso in this witty and literate reading of that region's economic and political condition. Latin America must move beyond utopian schemes and rigid ideologies invented in other hemispheres and acknowledge its own social realities of inequality and poverty. And today some countries--notably Chile and Brazil, but also Mexico and Colombia--are doing just that: abandoning the economic "magic realism" that plots miraculous but impossible solutions and forging instead a pragmatic path of gradual reform. Many Latin American leaders are adopting an approach combining monetary and fiscal orthodoxies with progressive social policies. This, says Santiso, is "the silent arrival of the political economy of the possible," which offers hope to a region exhausted by economic reform programs entailing macroeconomic shocks and countershocks. Santiso describes the creation in Chile and Brazil of institutions and policies that are connected to social realities rather than to theories found in economics textbooks. Mexico too has created its own fiscal and monetary policies and institutions, and it has the additional benefit of being a party to NAFTA. Santiso outlines the development strategies unfolding in Latin America, from Chile and Brazil to Colombia and Uruguay, strategies anchored externally by treaties and trade agreements and internally by strong fiscal and monetary institutions and policies. And he charts the less successful trajectories of Argentina, Venezuela, and Bolivia, which are still in thrall to utopian but impossible miracle cures. Santiso's account of this emerging transformation describes Latin America at a crossroads. Beginning in 2006, elections in Brazil, Mexico, and elsewhere may signal whether Latin America will decisively choose the political economy of the possible over the political economy of the impossible. 607 $aLatin America$xEconomic policy 607 $aLatin America$xPolitics and government$y1980- 610 $aECONOMICS/Political Economy 676 $a330.98 700 $aSantiso$b Javier$0285510 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777514203321 996 $aLatin America's political economy of the possible$9848356 997 $aUNINA