Cuba in Transition: Volume 11

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

The Impact of the Helms-Burton Legislation on Foreign Investment in Cuba

Paolo Spadoni

Una Visión Alternativa ("no Convencional") de Economía Política desde Europa Central y Rusia sobre la Transición del Socialismo a una Economía de Mercado

Rolando Castañeda

The Miracle of the Cuban Economy in the 1990s

Ed Canler

Structures of Opportunities, Emerging Civil Society and Transition: The Work of Human Rights Organizations

Enrique S. Pumar

Cuban Culture and Democracy: Theory and Research Agenda

Aldo M. Leiva

The Economic Impact of U.S. Sanctions with Respect to Cuba

Jonathan R. Coleman

Comments and Observations on the U.S. International Trade Commission Report

Gary H. Maybarduk

Agriculture in the U.S. International Trade Commission Report

William A. Messina, Jr.

Imperfect Methodology But the Right Results? The USITC Report on the Economic Impact of U.S. Sanctions with Respect to Cuba

William N. Trumbull

"El Decálogo" de Felipe Pazos, ASCE y el Impase Cubano-Americano

René A. Monserrat

Felipe Pazos on Cuba's Transition: 10 Years Later

Ernesto Hernández-Catá

Felipe Pazos, Institutions and A Retrospective View of "Problemas Económicos de Cuba en el Período de Transición"

Roger R. Betancourt

Pazos' Economic Problems of Cuba During The Transition: Return Migration
of Skilled Persons and Professionals

Jorge F. Pérez-López

Some Issues Raised by Felipe Pazos on Foreign Investment in Cuba During Its Transition to a Free-Market Society

Matías F. Travieso-Díaz

Pazos On Cuban Economic Development

Efrén Córdova

International Economic Associations in Cuba's Agricultural Sector

James E. Ross and María Antonia Fernández Mayo

Cuba: A View of Revealed Export Advantage

William A. Messina, Jr., Eric T. Bonnett and Timothy G. Taylor

The Post Fidel Transition: Mitigating the Inevitable Disaster

Gary H. Maybarduk

Economic and Political Liberalization in Former Socialist Countries: Implications for Cuba

Roberto Orro

Orographic Influences on Vegetation and Bioprospecting Potential at the Confluence of the Bayamo, Guamá and Guisa Rivers

Larry Daley

Medicare: A Potential Income-Generating Activity for Cuba in the Future

Sergio Díaz-Briquets

La Reforma Institucional Durante la Transición

Ernesto F. Betancourt

Chile in Mesa-Lago's Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies: Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica

Francisco León

Cuba en Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies: Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica por Mesa-Lago

Jorge A. Sanguinetty

Costa Rica In Mesa-Lago's Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies: Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica

Juan A. B. Belt

Comparative Policy and Performance in Mesa-Lago's Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies: Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica

Roger R. Betancourt

Response to Comments on Market, Socialist and Mixed Economies: Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Nation, Society and Economy in Post-Castro Cuba

Antonio Jorge

Socialist Cuba -- The Nullity of the Foreign Investment Contracts Due to an Illicit Cause: To Defraud the Cuban Worker

Alberto Luzárraga

Rights and Remedies Concerning Cuban Residential Property

Stephen J. Kimmerling

Cuba's Perfeccionamiento Empresarial Law: A Step Towards Privatization?

Matías F. Travieso-Díaz

A Commentary on Foreign Investment in Cuba

Maria C. Werlau

Circumventing the Embargo: The Strategic Context of Spain's Economic Relations with Cuba

Eric N. Baklanoff

Rationed Products and Something Else: Food Availability and Distribution in 2000 Cuba

José Alvarez

Cuba and the Gulf Pact: A Transition Integration Project

Jorge Luis Romeu

Role of the Diasporas in Transition Economies: Lessons from Armenia

Lev M. Freinkman

Cuban Tourism: A Critique of the CEPAL 2000 Report

María Dolores Espino

Perfeccionamiento Empresarial: Entrepreneurial Perfectionism and the Cuban Tourism Industry

Artimus Keiffer

Prostitution and Sex Tourism in Cuba

Charles Trumbull

An Analysis of Decree-Law No. 171 on Private Home Rentals

Ted Henken

Cuba's Tourism: Critique of Three Papers

Nicolás Crespo

Inside Civil Society: An Empirical Study in Cuba of Opinions Among Members of
Independent Groups on Problems and Prospects for Democratization

Center for the Study of a National Option (CEON)

Comments by Alfred G. Cuzán

A Test of Culture of Opposition's Power Grid

B. E. Aguirre

Faith-Based NGOs: Their Role in Distributing Humanitarian Aid and Delivering Social Services in the Special Period

Teo A. Babún, Jr.

Comments on "The Internet and State Control in Authoritarian Regimes"

Robert C. Harding

Preguntas Olsonianas Sobre el Futuro de Cuba: ¿Son Factibles una Economía de Mercado y una Democracia?

Jorge A. Sanguinetty

Much Ado About Something? Regime Change in Cuba

Eusebio Mujal-León and Joshua W. Busby

Cuba in Transition: Volume 11

Papers and Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)

Miami, Florida August 2-4, 2001

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Table of Contents

Papers and Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the
Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)

Miami, Florida
August 2-4, 2001