Carmelo Mesa-Lago Livres

The analysis explores the economic development and social welfare of Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica, each representing distinct economic systems: market, socialist, and mixed. Carmelo Mesa-Lago evaluates their policies and performance over decades, employing innovative ranking techniques against international benchmarks. The study spans thirty-eight years for Costa Rica and Cuba and twenty-four years for Chile, providing insights into how these varied socioeconomic models impact their respective outcomes in development and welfare.

The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems.

CONTENIDO: Situación prerrevolucionaria y periodización de las política revolucionarias - Liquidación del capitalismo y erosión del mercado: 1959-60 - Modelo ortodoxo (estalinista) de planificación central: 1961-66 - Adopción y radicalización del modelo guevarista: 1966-70 - Introducción al modelo moderado soviético (pre-Gorbachov) de reforma económica: 1971-85 - El proceso de rectificación antimercado, la caída del bloque soviético y la reforma económica: 1986-93 - Factores de cambio y escenarios políticoeconómicos futuros.