Skip navigation  Eliana Cardoso  Titles by This Author
Diversity, Trends, and Conflicts  Latin America's Economy
provides a clear, comprehensive, and accessible overview of
major economic issues facing Latin America today, including
balance of payments problems, inflation, stabilization, poverty,
inequality, and land reform. Each chapter centers on an economic
problem, presenting major economic theories about the causes and
possible solutions to the problem. The authors provide numerous
cross-country examples to demonstrate how individual countries
are affected by economic trends or policies.  As once-powerful
communist rulers flee their presidential palaces and centralized
economies give way to free markets, the future of Latin
America's last socialist country hangs in the balance. In a
fast-paced style that is both technically sophisticated and
admirably free of economic jargon, Eliana Cardoso and Ann
Helwege provide a much-needed roadmap for a peaceful and
productive transition from communism to capitalis