From conflict to crisis : the danger of U.S. actions / / Jeanne M. Haskin

• Autore: Haskin Jeanne M. <1964->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Algora Publishing, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 337.730728
• Soggetto topico: Neoliberalism - United States; Business cycles - United States; Capitalism - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign economic relations Central America; Central America Foreign economic relations United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Introduction; Preferred Paths and Ends; Economic Scapegoating; Learning from Yugoslavia; The Threat of ""Balkanization""; There's a Reason It's Called Scapegoating; Chapter One: Unearthing the Bones; The Start of a New World; Separation of Church and State; The Enlightenment of Self-Interest; Scientific Obfuscation; In Adam Smith's Own Words; Abusive Self-Interest; The New Double Standard; Reallocation of Assets; Perfectly Rational Genocide; Chapter Two: Instilling the Illusion of Choice; The Predatory Debt Link; The Role of Indoctrination; Trojan Politics ; Chapter Three: Political StrategizingChapter Four: Behavioral Economics; Economic Faith; Capitalist Hand-Waving; Money, Religion and Politics; Putting It in Perspective; Chapter Five: Favoring Old Money Over New; The Boom-Bust Balance; Implicit Political Bargains; Chapter Six: Making the World Safe for Finance; American Hegemony Within the Bretton Woods Institutions; The IMF Takes Up Long Term Lending; Implementing Conditionality; The Neoliberal Shift; The Subtlety of Multilateral Aid; Back to Bargaining; "Softening" Reform; The Focus on Free Trade ; Chapter Seven: The Colonial History of BelizeThe First English Settlers; The Introduction of Slavery; The Evolution of Belize Under the British; The Early Government System; The People, Education, and Religion; The End of Slavery in Belize; The Guatemalan Dispute; The Economy; The Politics of Independence; Chapter Eight: Belize-Party Politics and Debt; The Cash Cow of Government; Costly Government Incentives; The Viewpoint of the IMF; Belize's Foreign Debt; The Predatory State; "Forty Years of Police Abuse"; The PUP and the Public; Austerity and Sacrifice ; Chapter Nine: Belize - Recommendations of the IMFChapter Ten: Nicaragua 1522-1939; Indigenous Depopulation; Encomienda and Repartimiento; Conflict with the Church; Harassment by the British; The Liberal-Conservative Divide; Nicaraguan Independence; Taking Land from the Indigenous Peoples; The Canal Treaty; William Walker; Conservatives versus Liberals; Sandino and Somoza; Chapter Eleven: Nicaragua - The Somoza Dynasty; Controlling the Opposition; Somoza's Foreign Policy; Foreign Aid and Development; The Succession of Luis Somoza; The Economic Climate; Opposition and Accommodation; The FSLN ; The Beginning of the EndSomoza Must Go; Chapter Twelve: Nicaragua - Opposition to the Sandinistas; The Result of the War for Liberation; The Early Government Structure; Foreign Aid in the Early Years; The El Salvador Situation; The "Totalitarian Dungeon"; The Coming of the Contras; Low Intensity Conflict; The 1984 Elections; Opposition and Resolution; Chapter Thirteen: Nicaragua - Implementing Neoliberalism; The UNO Victory; The Policies of Chamorro; The End of the Chamorro Regime; The Aleman-Bolanos Reforms; Self-Reproducing Debt and North-South Conflict; Aleman Charged With Corruption ; A Strengthened Poverty Reduction Strategy
• Sommario/riassunto: A society that is reared on competition will face unsettling challenges to authority if it doesn't set certain functions outside the arena of battle, via systematic enrichment of the affluent minority that has always had the power to topple and ruin the system. Today's preoccupation with America's revolutionary history is not just a piece of theater. At the heart of America's outrage is an inability to lash out and demand redemption from the source of its distress because the pain is inflicted, not by hatred, but by the fundamental lack of stability built into our way of life. Now that a fifth
• Titolo autorizzato: From conflict to crisis
• ISBN: 0-87586-962-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808542803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II