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Painful birth : how Chile became a free and prosperous society / Jame Rolph Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, James Rolph.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chile--Politics and government--1970-.
- Chile.
- Chile--Economic conditions--1970-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (90 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Painful Birth discusses how Chile escaped becoming a communist state in the late 1970s and transformed into a free and prosperous society. It narrates the events and explains the economic policies, institutional transformation, and ideological change involved, providing an invaluable case study in economics, international relations, and Latin American development.
- Contents:
- Preface : the nature of freedom and a free society
- Geography and political history
- Liberation begins
- The first phase of market reforms
- The 1982 crisis and third phase reforms
- Social Security reform
- End of the liberation government.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-7618-8811-X
- 0-7618-6000-2
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