Citation:
Domínguez, Jorge I. 1997. “Technopols: Ideas and Leaders in Freeing Politics and Markets in Latin America in the 1990s”. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/yxw6emm9
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Date Published:
Jan 1, 1997Abstract:
"Men make their own history," Karl Marx wrote in 1852, "but they do not make it just as they please." Scholars of Latin America have spent much energy understanding the second half of that sentence, namely, the importance of structures and their legacies... [W]e are mindful of that second half but call attention to its first half: the conscious choices made by some political actors in the 1980s and 1990s in Latin America to foster freer politics and freer markets and, in that way, to reinvent Latin American history.