Book Publications.
  • Th Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy
    Latin America's recent development performance calls for a multidisciplinary analytical tool kit. This handbook accordingly adopts a political-economy perspective to understand Latin American economies. This perspective is not new to the region; indeed, this volume consciously follows the approach pioneered by political economist Albert O. Hirschman a half century ago. But the ... [read more]
  • La década de las multilatinas, Fundación Carolina
    Las riquezas de las naciones están experimentado una transformación inédita. Con el nuevo mileno, los mercados emergentes cobraron un protagonismo económico sin precedentes, convirtiéndose en motor de crecimiento, mientras los países OCDE se desplomaban con la crisis abierta en el año 2008. A esa tendencia, le ha seguido otra q... [read more]
Book Reviews.
  • May 11, 2012-
    Paul Krugman: The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008 (2009), W. W. Norton & Company
    Up until a few years ago, the economists and politicians of our time were convinced that economic science had come so far since the Great Depression that nothing like it could possibly happen again. Krugman wrote the first version of this book, in 1999, with the intention of warning against this false confidence. In 2009, he wrote the second version of the book, when his "terrible prophecy" of 1999 had already been fulfilled. He adopts a deliberately straightforward and informal style to explain how this catastrophe came about.
  • March 16, 2012-
    Raghuram G. Rajan: Fault lines (2010)
    According to Rajan, the financial meltdown and ensuing recession that have shaken capitalism since 2008 were not only due to the factors mentioned most frequently since then, such as the skewed incentives for bankers that unbridled their seemingly irrational greed; or the lack of control by public regulators unable to foresee and deal promptly with an obvious systemic risk. “The real origins of the crisis we have undergone are not only more widespread but also more hidden.” They are the seven  structural problems of today’s economic system that the author calls fractures and which he analyses in the course of this book, whilst suggesting three major areas for reform to remedy the current situation.
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