| Ascent to Bankruptcy | Carmelo Mesa-Lago | For social security specialists, this sweeping study will serve as a comprehensive regional handbook on the legal, administrative, and financial features of Latin America’s programs. |
| Business and Democracy in Latin America | Ernest Bartell | These essays provide the first published research on Latin America’s business sectors after recent political transformations in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru. |
| Cuba After the Cold War | Carmelo Mesa-Lago | Ten original essays by an international team of scholars specializing in Cuba, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Latin America focus on the fall of communism in Europe and the transition to a market economy in Cuba. |
| Cuban Economy | Archibald Ritter | Archibald Ritter provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of the Cuban economy, particularly in the years since the end of covert subsidies from the former Soviet Union.
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| Cuban Sugar Policy from 1963 to 1970 | Heinrich Brunner | After providing background information on Cuba's pre-revolutionary economy, Brunner explores the effects of Communist ideology and the U.S. embargo on the country's resources and trade, and analyzes the problems Cuba faced in shifting from trade with the U.S. to trade with the Soviet Union and Soviet bloc. |
| Economics of Cuban Sugar | Jorge Pérez-López | Sugar continues to dominate the economy of socialist Cuba. After initial attempts at diversification following the Revolution, the Cuban regime rehabilitated the sugar industry in 1965, making the country again vulnerable to overdependence on a single agricultural product. Pérez-López examines the various efforts at economic planning in Cuba after the Revolution and analyzes aspects particular to the sugar industr |
| High-Tech Trade Wars | Sara Schoonmaker | High-Tech Trade Wars focuses on the U.S.-Brazilian trade war concerning the computer industry to examine the conflicts brought about by attempts to construct free trade and open markets, especially in countries with fewer economic resources. |
| Peru and the International Monetary Fund | Thomas Scheetz | Thomas Scheetz shows that the Internationaly Monetary Fund’s approach in 1980s Peru did not addresses the roots of debt and financial crisis, but instead instituted a series of inadequate stopgap policies. |
| Social Security in Latin America | Carmelo Mesa-Lago | A comprehensive and sophisticated study of the relationship between social security policy and inequality in Latin America. |
