The essays collected in this book show that the agrarian question in Chile has had a major influence on the country's social, political and economic problems si

This book examines the relationship between free markets and democracy. It demonstrates how the implementation of even very painful free-market economic reforms

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Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region’s accelerated integration into the global

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