The Market and the Masses in Latin America: Policy Reform and Consumption in Liberalizing Economies

by Andy Baker

Book Overview

What do ordinary citizens in developing countries think about free markets? Conventional wisdom views globalization as an imposition on unwilling workers in developing nations, concluding that the recent rise of the Latin American left constitutes a popular backlash against the market. Andy Baker marshals public opinion data from eighteen Latin American countries to show that most of the region's citizens are enthusiastic about globalization because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521156238
• ISBN13: 9780521156233
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"