Reviews for Who Gains from Free Trade?: Export-Led Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America

The average rating for Who Gains from Free Trade?: Export-Led Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-09-03 00:00:00 Chase Peltzer I am definitely using the table of contents to get what I want to get out of this book. I am really noticing the distance between Florence Babb and the people who she writes about. I am missing the feeling of Nicaragua in the 90's. She follows in the style of anthropologists who study people and stay distant. Her intention of going to Nicaragua and writing a book never seemed to be influenced by who she met and fell in love with. It feels like she went to Nicaragua and never saw it as a place she was a part of, never saw herself able to fall in love there. Always distant. always studying. always making deadlines. confirming her biases and perspectives. never surprised. never personal. stiff. guarded. never using her speaking voice, her own voice. never speaking to me. speaking to who?

Review # 2 was written on 2017-05-19 00:00:00 Larry Jefferson Like the majority of the western historians when they write about the Soviet Union, the writer tended to defame the Soviet economy in a biased way. Mass collectivisation, capital goods industries, central planning are damned from the western point of view, damned because they were what made the Soviets great history. The book didn't provide any new information, only the old lies about famines, coercion, labour camps, and much more of the same stuff that Trotsky used against Stalin, especially the myth of exploiting the peasants to finance the mass industrialisation, which is used throughout the whole book.