Latin America In The World Economy Book

	List of Tables	ix
	Foreword	xi
	Preface	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xv
	List of Acronyms	xvii
	Map of Western Hemisphere	xix
1	The Changing World Economy: Introduction and Early History	1
	Some Preliminary Principles and Terms	2
	Tribute-Seeking Empires	4
	Mercantilism and Commercial Expansion, 1450-1750	5
	Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Colonial Latin America as an Uncertain Mercantile Project	13
2	Competitive Capitalist Industrialization, Free Trade Imperialism, and Latin American Independence, 1700-1850	25
	Competitive Capitalism: England	25
	Free Trade Imperialism	32
	Political Independence in Latin America	35
	Independent Spanish America in the World Market	44
3	Finance Capitalism, the New Imperialism, and Latin American Export Economies, 1850-1930	55
	Finance Capitalist Industralization: Germany	56
	Finance Capitalism and the "New Imperialism,"	61
	Latin America in the Era of the New Imperialism	66
4	Modern Times, Bretton Woods, and Transnational Corporations, 1920-1970s	91
	The Turbulent Beginnings of Modern Times in the United States	91
	The Structure of Modern Times in the 1950s and 1960s	96
	The International Economy, the Cold War, and Transnational Corporations	101
5	Import Substitution and Semi-Industrialization in Latin America, 1930-1970s	117
	Depression, War, and the Ascent of the State	117
	The Limits of Populism: Argentina Under Peron	125
	The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industralization in Latin America	127
	Success, Failure, and Demise of Import-Substituting Industrialization	139
6	International Competition and the Dissolution of Modern Times	147
	The Crisis of U.S. Modern Times	147
	Beyond Modern Times	164
7	Debt, Democracy, and Uncertain Transformations: Latin America in a New World	169
	The Debt Crisis in Latin America	172
	Debt Leverage and Structural Adjustment	177
	Political Transitions	184
	Neoliberal Democracy	188
	The implementation of Neoliberal Reforms	197
	Beyond Neoliberalism	203
	References	211
	Index	241