TY - BOOK AU - Baer,Werner AU - Love,Joseph LeRoy ED - Edward Elgar Publishing. TI - Liberalization and its consequences: a comparative perspective on Latin America and Eastern Europe SN - 9781781952832 (e-book) AV - HC244 .L469 2000 U1 - 338.947 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Cheltenham, Northampton, Mass. PB - Edward Elgar Pub. KW - Privatization KW - Latin America KW - Democratization KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Economic conditions KW - 1989- KW - Economic policy KW - 1982- KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Economic performance and the state in Latin America -- 3. Rethinking economic performance in Central and Eastern Europe, 1870-1989 -- 4. Economic transition in Eastern Europe -- 5. How much. does the past count? -- 6. Hungary's post-communist development in comparative perspective -- 7. Trajectories of East European transformation -- 8. Neo-liberalism revisited in the light of the Brazilian crisis -- 9. The Russian oligarchs -- 10. Privatizing the commons -- 11. Privatizing and the public interest -- 12. The neo-liberal experiment in Latin America -- 13. Institutions and property rights across time and space N2 - The essays in this volume describe, analyse and compare the achievements and the failures of societies that adopted market-based economies within a democratic polity after a long period of communist rule (Russia and Eastern Europe) or military authoritarianism (Latin America). Together, they also trace the rocky course of liberal economic policies over the whole twentieth century UR - https://www.elgaronline.com/view/1840644362.xml ER -