José Miguel Ahumada

The Political Economy of Peripheral Growth

Chile in the Global Economy

Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a political economy perspective on Chile's contemporary economic development, explaining the different stages of Chile's neoliberal pattern of economic integration into the global economy from 1973 to 2015. Three key explanatory variables are considered: the evolution of business-state relations, US geopolitical interest in the region through the waves of trade agreements, and the political impact of the dynamics of inflows and outflows of financial capital. Although Chile is typically considered to be a successful case of a free market economy, this book presents an alternative narrative of Chile's growth through using a Latin American Structuralist political economy perspective. While it recognises the positive results in terms of growth, it also emphasises the lack of dynamic sources for long-term development, which embeds the economy into short-term booms followed by periods of stagnation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin; Springer International Publishing;
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-10742-0
• 1st ed. 2019
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9783030107420
• ISBN-10: 3030107426
• Artikelnr.: 54603339

Autorenporträt

José Miguel Ahumada is a Teaching Associate at the Department of Politics and Government in the Alberto Hurtado University, Chile. Dr Ahumada's main research interests are in the areas of political economy of development in Latin America, comparative political economy and the history of economic thought.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. IntroductionPART I. Latin America in the global economyChapter 2. The political economy of development and integration: a structuralist perspectiveChapter 3. Latin America since the 1990s: deindustrialization, reprimarization and policy space restrictionsPART II. Chile: The political economy of peripheral growth Chapter 4. The military dictatorship and the origins of peripheral growthChapter 5. The rise and fall of peripheral growth: Chile during the 1990sChapter 6. Chile in the road to the commodity boom: deindustrialization without policy spaceChapter 7. Life after the commodity boom: the structure of contemporary peripheral development (2011 -2015)Chapter 8. Conclusions: the mirages of the miracle