Cuba: From Revolution to DevelopmentPinter, 1998 - 174 pages Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent demise of CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Advancement), the international communist trading bloc, observers have been predicting that Cuba will go the same way as the rest of the Warsaw Pact: 'market forces' replacing planning directives, and with political representation through political parties competing periodically for the national vote. Cuba has defied the pundits. And, in the opinion of the author, will not succumb to the liberalizing pressures of the globalized world economy. Cuba faces problems, and in this book the scale of these pressures is assessed in the context of Cuban development since the revolution in 1959. The alternative policy strategies put forward in the traditional literature are theoretically addressed, with the ideological implications of each programme emphasized. Cuba does face a new, hostile international economic environment, and choices have to be made. But these are political choices, rather than economic ones. The possible economic options open to Cuba are discussed, in light of the political constraints and parameters within which market forces must operate. 'Examining intelligently the different options available to Havana's policy-makers, Ken Cole's mastery of economic theory allows him to explain in accessible language Cuba's economic decline and ensuing surprising recovery in the 1990s....required reading for students and teachers of Cuban affairs, as well as newsmen, policy-makers and investors who need to learn the why and how behind Cuba's promising economic renewal.' |
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... Understanding Economics ( Cole 1995 ) . The argument of the book sought to understand the ideological implications of alternative economic analyses . Economic theory only has relevance in so far as it informs policy strategies , and ...
... understand why people , faced with the same constraints , behave and react in different ways . Such implicit understandings of human motivation and behaviour are at the basis of theoretical interpretations of , and policy prescriptions ...
... understand . That is the way fanatics are made and dogmatic , fanatical minds developed ... We are going to educate , teach to think , teach to analyse and understand ' ( Castro 1972 : 451 , my translation ) . Experience , the ...
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The Cuban predicament | 1 |
The revolutionary imperative | 21 |
The intellectual parameters of Cuban development | 59 |
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