Apuntes 22

Empirically study the consequences of boom-bust natural-resource cycles in the presence of domestic distortions in international trade; Present a general overview of the monetary method employed by the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) to obtain a rough estimate of the scale of the underground economy; Explain how the lack of development of the financial system and its performance are closely related to the emergence and evolution of the informal capital market; Address the methodological debate on the problem of labor, emphasizing the need for empirical research, providing ethnographic data on workers and unions of the Southern Peru Copper Corporation; Examine the reasons behind the failure of the heterodox stabilization policies that were implemented by Latin American countries in the mid-1980s, in response to the orthodox anti-inflationary policies designed in economies that were experiencing chronic inflation.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21678/0252-1865-00000022