Japan's Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation Book

Catherine Moses wrote a stunningly one-sided account of Cuban politics. There are some interesting tidbits here and there, but most of it just propaganda and not terribly smart propaganda, at that. The level of black and white thinking she employs is almost too much to believe. Everyone who is against Castro is kind and good and only wants what's best for Cuba, whereas all those who have even remote sympathies for the revolutionary goals always appear to be engaged in some wicked activity or another. I am aware that it's not easy to find good words for the state of things in Cuba, but I still think that she wasted a wonderful opportunity to give an account of that country in particularly devastating circumstances during the '90s - she was, after all, an eyewitness of what was possibly the most difficult decade that island has seen in modern times (and maybe ever?). Even if I happen to agree with most of her points about Cuban politics, the simplicity and superficiality of her analysis, as well as suspiciously stereotypical nature of her "real life accounts" makes this book rather a waste of time if one wants to read anything beyond mere political reductionism.