Cuban economists on the Cuban economy

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    • Campbell, Al (Professor emeritus of economics)

Bibliographic Information

Cuban economists on the Cuban economy

edited by Al Campbell

(Contemporary Cuba / edited by John M. Kirk)

University Press of Florida, c2013

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Includes index

Summary: Brings 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

Contents of Works

  • Finding a new road (again) to a socialist economy and economic well-being in Cuba / Al Campbell
  • Fifty years of revolution in the Cuban economy : a brief overview / Jose Luis Rodríguez
  • The evolution of Cuba's macroeconomy : from the triumph of the revolution through the special period / Oscar U-Echevarría Vallejo
  • Cuba's insertion in the international economy since 1990 / Nancy A. Quiñones Chang
  • Medium and long-range planning in Cuba : historical evolution and future prospects / Elena Alvarez González
  • Creating a better life : the human dimension of the Cuban economy / Rita Castiñeiras García
  • Fighting poverty : Cuba's experience / Angela Ferriol
  • The Cuban population : major characteristics with a special focus on the aging population / Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga
  • Labor relations, labor rights, and trade unions : their history in Cuba / Alfredo Morales Cartaya
  • The evolution of international tourism in Cuba / Miguel Alejandro Figueras
  • Tourism : natural product, source of exchange with the outside world, and ideological challenge / Alfredo García Jiménez
  • Agriculture : historical transformations and future directions / Ángel Bu Wong and Pablo Fernández Domínguez
  • Expansion of knowledge-based economic sectors : the advantages socialism offers for Cuba / Vito N. Quevedo Rodríguez

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Most scholarship on the Cuban economy looks at the island nation from the outside in. Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy is the first collection to bring together some of the island's leading economists to discuss the good and the bad about their own economy. These thirteen voices--seldom published together in English--offer clear and straightforward analyses of how Cuban society provides for its needs, distributes surplus, and assesses its shortcomings. Focusing on changes in policy during the Special Period, the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, this volume tracks various shifts, both major and minor, in the island's planned economy as leaders adapted to changing global relations while developing independent sources of income. These essays offer invaluable and sober assessments of Cuba's entrance into the international economy through such sectors as tourism, knowledge-based goods and services, and agriculture. Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy was written, in part, to reveal the rigorous research conducted within the country and to clarify the different factors that Cubans emphasise in examining their place on the world economic stage. It also provides unique insights into the island's fight against poverty, its aging population, and its trade unions. This book will be an invaluable resource for years to come.

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