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020 _a9780813048345
020 _z9780813044231 (alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aHC152.5
_b.C835 2013
082 0 0 _a330.97291
_223
245 0 0 _aCuban economists on the Cuban economy
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Al Campbell.
260 _aGainesville :
_bUniversity Press of Florida,
_cc2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (384 p.)
490 1 _aContemporary Cuba
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Finding a new road (again) to a socialist economy and economic well-being in Cuba / Al Campbell -- Part I: The macroeconomy: 1. Fifty years of revolution in the Cuban economy: a brief overview / Jose Luis Rodríguez -- 2. The evolution of Cuba's macroeconomy: from the triumph of the revolution through the special period / Oscar U-Echevarría Vallejo -- 3. Cuba's insertion in the international economy since 1990 / Nancy A. Quiñones Chang -- 4. Medium and long-range planning in Cuba: historical evolution and future prospects / Elena Alvarez González -- Part II: Socioeconomic issues -- 5. Creating a better life: the human dimension of the Cuban economy / Rita Castiñeiras García -- 6. Fighting poverty: Cuba's experience / Angela Ferriol -- 7. The Cuban population: major characteristics with a special focus on the aging population / Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga -- 8. Labor relations, labor rights, and trade unions: their history in Cuba / Alfredo Morales Cartaya -- Part III: Specific branches of production -- 9. The evolution of international tourism in Cuba / Miguel Alejandro Figueras -- 10. Tourism: natural product, source of exchange with the outside world, and ideological challenge / Alfredo García Jimnez -- 11. Agriculture: historical transformations and future directions / angel Bu Wong and Pablo Fernández Domínguez -- 12. Expansion of knowledge-based economic sectors: the advantages socialism offers for Cuba / Vito N. Quevedo Rodríguez.
520 _aBrings together some of Cuban's most prominent economists to examine Cuba's economic history and analyze changes in policy during the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
651 0 _aCuba
_xSocial conditions.
651 0 _aCuba
_xEconomic policy.
651 0 _aCuba
_xEconomic conditions.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aCampbell, Al.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813048345/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c32786
_d32786