Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 408 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783030439255
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in Latin American heterodox economics
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Crime and (No) Punishment: Business Corporations and Dictatorships -- References -- Chapter 2: Business and the Military in the Argentine Dictatorship (1976-1983): Institutional, Economic, and Repressive Relations -- The 1976-1983 Dictatorship in Argentina -- Intellectual and Institutional Relations Between the Military and Big Business -- Economic and Financial Relations Between the Military and Big Business -- Business Leadership Participation in Repressive Policies -- Conclusion -- References -- Archival Sources -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Building the Dictatorship: Construction Companies and Industrialization in Brazil -- Introduction -- Dictatorship, Business Community, and Economic Policies in Brazil -- Contractors and Dictatorship: Helping Build Authoritarianism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Authoritarian Rule and Economic Groups in Chile: A Case of Winner-Takes-All Politics -- Introduction -- Economic Modernization in Dictatorship -- The Dictatorship's Economic Transformation: Objectives -- "First Wave" Privatizations (1974-1979): Reversing the Nationalizations and Company Interventions by the Allende Government -- The Privatization of the Pension System -- Second Wave Privatizations (1984-1989) -- The Continuity of the Economic System Imposed by the Dictatorship -- The Weaknesses of the Economic System -- Conflicts of Interest -- The Revolving Door -- Illegal Financing of Politics -- Collusion -- Use of Privileged Information -- Use of Tax Evasion Practices Using Companies Bankrupted in 1982 -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Big Business and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in Uruguay: A Network-Based Story of Policy Infiltration for Self-Preservation -- Introduction.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030439248
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Big business and dictatorships in Latin America Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 ISBN 9783030439248
Language:
English
Author information:
Berghoff, Hartmut 1960-
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