{"product_id":"venezuela-before-chavez-9780271056319","title":"Venezuela Before Chávez","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays that explore the collapse of economic growth in Venezuela since the 1970s. Essays discuss the relevance of public investment, labor markets, fiscal policy, institutions, politics, and values. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This objective and expert evaluation of the Venezuelan economy will become an indispensable reference for any future debates on the legacy of the Chávez era.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Moisés Naím,author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVenezuela Before Chávez \u003c\/i\u003eis not just a product of scrupulous academic research. It is also, as the authors understand—and as present circumstances in the country attest—a helpful and coherent guide for those who devise policies and make decisions in a country so reliant on oil.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Michael Shifter \u003ci\u003eReVista Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a fine book on Venezuela and its economic and sociopolitical problems during the 20 years preceding the beginning, in 1999, of the Hugo Chávez Frías administration. . . . The story that unfolds in this excellent contribution to the literature is a good one, and the book is likely to become essential reading for understanding Venezuela’s economic decline during the last two decades of the twentieth century.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Brian McBeth \u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Introduction Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Why Did Venezuelan Growth Collapse?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRicardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Venezuela After A Century of Oil Exploitation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOsmel Manzano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Public Investment and Productivity Growth in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Industry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosé Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The Incidence of Labor Market Reforms on Employment in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Sector 1995–2001\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOmar Bello and Adriana Bermúdez \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Understanding Economic Growth in Venezuela: 1970–2005 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Real Effects of a Financial Collapse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatías Braun\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Much Higher Schooling, Much Lower Wages: Human Capital and Economic Collapse in Venezuela\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Ortega and Lant Pritchett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Income Distribution and Redistribution in Venezuela\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Freije\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Competing for Jobs or Creating Jobs? The Impact of Immigration on Native-Born Unemployment in Venezuela, 1980-2003\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDan Levy and Dean Yang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Sleeping in the Bed One Makes: The Venezuelan Fiscal Policy Response to the Oil Boom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaría Antonia Moreno and Cameron A. Shelton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Institutional Collapse: The Rise and Decline of Democratic Governance in Venezuela\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Monaldi and Michael Penfold\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in Venezuela\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Di John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Explaining Chavismo: The Unexpected Alliance of Radical Leftists and the Military in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJavier Corrales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Oil, Macro Volatility and Crime in the Determination of Beliefs in Venezuela\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRafael Di Tella, Javier Donna, and Robert MacCulloch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Understanding the Collapse: Venezuela’s Experience in Cross-National Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRicardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400788877655,"sku":"9780271056319","price":111.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/venezuela-before-chavez-9780271056319","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}