Market, socialist, and mixed economies
Subtitle: comparative policy and performance : Chile, Costa Rica, and Cuba
By: Carmelo Mesa-Lago ; with Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Ivan Brenes, Verónica Montecinos, and Mark Samara
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 707
Subjects: Chile -- Economic policy; Cuba -- Economic policy; Costa Rica -- Economic policy; Latin America -- Economic policy
Description: "In this major comparative work, noted economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago analyzes three Latin American countries with divergent economic systems: Chile (a market economy), Cuba (Socialist), and Costa Rica (mixed). He examines their economic and social policies, shows how these policies affect performance based on a set of socioeconomic variables, and ranks the countries among themselves (using new techniques) and in comparison with international indicators.

The time frame of the study embraces thirty-eight years for Costa Rica (under the democratic social democracy) and Cuba (under the socialist revolution) and twenty-four years for Chile (under Pinochet and the return to democracy). Mesa-Lago focuses on the three diverse socioeconomic models that these countries represent during these periods."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index