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Neoliberalism and Reactions to It

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Latin American Responses to Neo-Liberalism: Strategies and Struggles. Edited by AnderssonVibeke and ChristensenSteen Fryba. Skjernvej, Denmark: Aalborg University Press, 2012. Pp. 199. $49.00 paper. ISBN: 9788771120677.

Neoliberalism, Social Exclusion, and Social Movements: Resistance and Dissent in Mexico's Sugar Industry. By ChollettDonna L.Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. Pp. xii + 239. $85.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780739182253.

Models of Economic Liberalization: Business, Workers, and Compensation in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. By EtchemendySebastián. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 361. $99.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780521763127.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Alexandre César Cunha Leite*
Affiliation:
State University of Paraiba-UEPB
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References

1. See for example the perspective presented in Arjun Appadurai, ed., The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); and Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood, The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption, rev. ed. (1979; New York: Routledge, 1996).

2. See Veronica Schild's chapter in Goodale and Postero, “Care and Punishment in Latin America: The Gendered Neoliberalization of the Chilean State” (chapter 8, p. 196). Only in the late 1990s, and especially with the government of Michelle Bachelet (2000–2006), did the neoliberal proposal lose its strength as Chilean political rationality.

3. Import substitution industrialization or the import substitution process was analyzed in classic texts such as Maria da Conceição Tavares, Da substituição de importações ao capitalismo financeiro (Rio de Janeiro: Brasiliense, 1982); Celso Furtado, O mito do desenvolvimento econômico (São Paulo: Círculo do Livro, 1974); Celso Furtado, A economia latino-americana: Formação histórica e problemas contemporâneos (São Paulo: Cia. das Letras, 1976); and last but not least, Raúl Prebisch, El desarrollo económico de la América Latina y algunos de sus principales problemas (Santiago: ECLAC, 1949), http://prebisch.cepal.org/sites/default/files/2013/prebisch_el_desarrollo_eco.pdf.