Western Hemisphere
Edgar J. Dosman
In this exhaustively researched, authoritative treatment, Dosman, a Canadian political scientist, finds Prebisch to be a sensible, centrist economist, opposing excessive industrial protectionism and seeking an effective balance between the state and the market.
Greene's contribution with this book is to describe the complex labor-management system that organized, segregated, disciplined, and motivated the thousands of American whites and West Indian blacks recruited for the massive undertaking of the "big ditch."
In a study based on self-critical evaluations by major donors, Buss points many fingers -- at Haitian elites, U.S. domestic politics, the donor community, NGOs, and private contractors for Haiti's fragile state.
In this book, the authors allege that Venezuela's "real threat" to the United States come from Chávez's links to Iran and Russia.
