Key books on Latin American business, economy and politics.
Trade
NAFTA Revisited. By Jeffrey J. Schott, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2005. Free Trade Agreements:
US Strategies and Priorities. Edited by Jeffrey J. Schott, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., April 2004
Prospects for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. By Jeffrey J. Schott, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., August 2001.
Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New. By Robert A. Pastor, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., August 2001.
Here: A Biography of the New American Continent .By Anthony DePalma, PublicAffairs, June 2001
Toward Free Trade in the Americas By Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs and Maryse Robert, Brookings Institution Press, April 2001
Regional Integration in Latin America. Edited by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Brookings Institution Press, 2001
NAFTA and the Environment: Seven Years Later. By Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Daniel C. Esty, Diana Orejas, Luis Rubio and Jeffrey J. Schott, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., October 2000.
Summitry in the Americas: A Progress Report. By Richard Feinberg, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., April 1997.
Handbook of North American Industry: NAFTA and the Economics of its Member Nations Edited by John E. Cremeans, Bernan Press, Lanham, Maryland, 1998
Assessments of the North American Free Trade Agreement . Edited by Ambler H. Moss, Jr., Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, & London, 1993
NAFTA: An Assessment By Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., February 1993 (Revised version October 1993).
Western Hemisphere Trade Integration: A Canadian-Latin American Dialogue. Edited by Richard G. Lipsey and Patricio Meller, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1997 Trade Shocks in Developing Countries. Volume II: Asia and Latin America By Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning, Oxford University Press, 1999 Politics & Economic Policy
Argentina and the Fund: From Triumph to Tragedy. By Michael Mussa, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., July 2002
The Volatility Machine . By Michael Pettis, Oxford University Press, 2001
Brazil's Second Chance By Lincoln Gordon, Brookings Institution Press, 2001
Miraculous Metamorphoses: The Neoliberalization of Latin American Populism . Edited by J. Demmers, A. E. Fernandez Jilberto and B. Hogenboom, ZedBooks, London, 2001
Cuba: The Contours of Change. Edited by Susan Kaufman Purcell and David J. Rothkopf, Lynne Rienner Publishers, October 2000
Populism in Latin America Edited by Michael L. Conniff, University of Alabama Press, 1999
Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America. Edited by Nancy Birdsall, Carol Graham and Richard H. Sabot, Brookings Institution Press, 1998
Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy . By Nora Lustig, Brookings Institution Press, 1998
Mexico Under Zedillo. Edited by Susan Kaufman Purcell and Luis Rubio, Lynne Rienner Publishers, April 1998
Mexico: Assesing Neo-Liberal Reform Edited by Mónica Serrano, Brookings Institution Press, 1997
Labor Markets in Latin America: Combing Social Protection with Market Flexibility Edited by Sebastian Edwards and Nora Claudia Lustig, Brookings Institution Press, 1997
Brazil Under Cardoso Edited by Susan Kaufman Purcell and Riordan Roett, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997
Crisis and Reform in Latin America By Sebastian Edwards, Oxford University Press, 1995
El Desafío Neoliberal Compilador: Barry B. Levine, Grupo Editorial Norma, Bogotá, abril 1992.
The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America By Paul Craig Roberts and Karen Lafollette Araujo, Oxford University Press, 1997
La Privatizacion en Chile Por Dominique Hachete y Rolf Luders, CINDE, Panamá, Republica de Panamá, 1992
New Politics of Inequality in Latin America Edited by Douglas A. Chalmers, Carlos M. Vilas, Katherine Hite, and Scott B. Martin, Oxford University Press, 1997
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life By Jon Lee Anderson, Grove/Atlantic, March 1997
La agonía de América Por Carlos Alberto Montaner, Plaza & Janés, Madrid, 1989 Latin America and the World
The European-Latin American Trade and Investment Guide 2000 By Eulabis, McGraw Hill, October 1999
The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda. By Victor Bulmer-Thomas and James Dunkerley, Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, September 1999
Latin America and the World Economy since 1800. Edited by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor, Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, April 1999
Europe and Latin America in the World Economy. Edited by Susan Kaufman Purcell and Francoise Simon, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995
Japan and Latin America in the New Global Order. Edited by Susan Kaufman Purcell and Robert M. Immerman, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder & London, 1992
Latin America: US Policy After the Cold War. By Susan Kaufman Purcell, The Americas Society, 1991 Socio-Economics
Coffee and Power By Jeffery M. Paige, Harvard University Press, Cambridge-USA and London-UK, 1997
Bitter Fruit:The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala By Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer,Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 1992 and revised version (with new essays) August 1999.
La Economia del Bienestar By Jaime Carvajal, Carvajal SA, Cali, Colombia. Capital Goods
The Brazilian Capital Goods Industry, 1929-64 By Nathaniel H. Leff, Harvard University Press, 1968 Management
Maverick! By Ricardo Semler, Arrow Books, London, 1993 Communications
Continental Order?: Integrating North America for Cybercapitalism Edited by Vincent Mosco and Dan Schiller, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001.
El Tigre: Emilio Azcárraga y su imperio Televisa By Claudia Fernández and Andrew Paxman, Grijalbo/Raya en el Agua, 2000.
Latin American Television By John Sinclair, Oxford University Press, 1998
Corruption
Diagnosis Corruption Edited by Raphael Di Tella and William D. Savedoff, Inter-American Development Bank, 2001
Ojos Vendados By Andres Oppenheimer, Sudamericana/Plaza Janés, 2001.
Where Corruption Lives Edited by Gerald E. Caiden, O.P. Dwivedi and Joseph Jabbra, Kumarian Press, 2001.
Corruption and Political Reform in Brazil: The Impact of Collor's Impeachment Edited by Keith S. Rosenn and Richard Downes, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
Drug Traffic
Drug Trafficking Research in the Americas Edited by Bruce Bagley, North-South Center Press, 1997
Los Jinetes de la Cocaína Por Fabio Castillo, Editorial Documentos Periodisticos, Bogotá, 1987
Globalization
In Defense of Globalization By Jagdish Bhagwati, Oxford University Press, January 1, 2004. Why Globalization Works By Martin Wolf, Yale University Press, 2004.
Open World By Philip Legrain, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, January 25, 2004. In Defense of Global Capitalism By Johan Norberg, Cato Institute, September 25, 2003.