| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 430 pages) |
| Summary |
Although it was, for decades, by far the wealthiest country in Latin America, and, despite having the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela is a failed state. How did the country fall into this situation? How it can get out of it? This book analyzes and answers these questions, the most pressing asked by all those who think about the current situation of Venezuela. It concentrates its diagnosis on the 40 years of populism under democracy that allowed Hugo Chavez to reach power, and which resulted in the dramatic impoverishing of Venezuela. Chavismo is analyzed carefully, and the book also co |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2021) |
| Subject |
Development economics & emerging economies.
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Macroeconomics.
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Political economy.
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Venezuela -- History -- 1810- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142669
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Venezuela -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142681
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Venezuela -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142653
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| Subject |
Venezuela
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Celli-Gerbasi, Humberto, author of prologue
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Butendieck Hijerra, Stefanie, translator
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Kozak, Piotr, translator
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| ISBN |
1527570983 |
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9781527570986 |
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