Books LA on the Move
Argentina's Economic Growth and Recovery: The Economy in a Time of Default / Michael Cohen
This book examines the causes of the economic and political crisis in Argentina in 2001 and the process of strong economic recovery. It poses the question of how a country that defaulted on its external loans and was widely criticized by international observers could have succeeded in its growth and development despite this decision in 2002. It examines this process in terms of the impact of neo-liberal policies on the economy and the role of development strategy and the state in recovering from the crisis.
Forthcoming book: The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America: Impacts and Responses / Michael Cohen (ed.)
When the 2008 financial crisis rippled from the epicenter in the United States across borders into economies both near and far, many countries were caught by surprise. The bursting of a housing market bubble in the United States caused persistent economic and social detriment through 2011 especially in the United States and the European Union. The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America: Impacts and Responses is an examination of the heterogeneous Latin American region through the lens of three countries: Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.
Buenos Aires. The Power of Anticipation. Itinerant Images of the metropolitan future in the Centennial / Margarita Gutman
This is the first book that comprehensively examines the imagination of the urban future in Buenos Aires. At the time of the Centennial, its people imagined and consumed a large and exciting set of images, desires, plans and expectations for the future of the city.
Argentina in Collapse? The Americas Debate
This book examines the recent economic and political collapse of Argentina from an interdisciplinary and transcontinental perspective. It includes essays by historians, economists, sociologists, journalists, and architects from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and the United States, including among others, Joseph Stiglitz, Tulio Halperín Donghi, Néstor García Canclini, Roberto Frenkel, José Marcio Camargo and Andrés Solimano.
Latin America on the Move
Latin America is on the move. Newly elected governments in nine countries have rejected the past failed solutions to the problems of poverty, inequality, exclusion, and social justice. Political leaders are seeking new approaches to replace the neo-liberal policies of the Washington Consensus.
This book presents views about the direction of change of five Latin American political leaders. Each essay places the immediate and longer term challenges facing their countries in historical context. These challenges are presented in their own voices, unmediated by the North American press. Together they form a whole, representing a step towards what one leader has described: “in Latin America, integration is a destiny”.
Michael Cohen and Margarita Gutman (editors), OLA and Ediciones Infinito, 2007. ISBN: 978-987-9393-51-2
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