Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse
Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez -- 1 Why Did Venezuelan Growth Collapse? -- Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez -- 2 Venezuela After a Century of Oil Exploitation -- Osmel Manzano -- 3 Public Investment and Productivity Growth in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Industry -- José Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez -- 4 The Incidence of Labor Market Reforms on Employment in the Venezuelan Manufacturing Sector, 1995-2001 -- Omar Bello and Adriana Bermúdez -- 5 Understanding Economic Growth in Venezuela, 1970-2005: The Real Effects of a Financial Collapse -- Matías Braun -- 6 Much Higher Schooling, Much Lower Wages: Human Capital and Economic Collapse in Venezuela -- Daniel Ortega and Lant Pritchett -- 7 Income Distribution and Redistribution in Venezuela -- Samuel Freije -- 8 Competing for Jobs or Creating Jobs? The Impact of Immigration on Native-Born Unemployment in Venezuela, 1980-2003 -- Dan Levy and Dean Yang -- 9 Sleeping in the Bed One Makes: The Venezuelan Fiscal Policy Response to the Oil Boom -- María Antonia Moreno and Cameron A. Shelton -- 10 Institutional Collapse: The Rise and Decline of Democratic Governance in Venezuela -- Francisco Monaldi and Michael Penfold -- 11 The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in Venezuela -- Jonathan Di John -- 12 Explaining Chavismo: The Unexpected Alliance of Radical Leftists and the Military in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez -- Javier Corrales -- 13 Oil, Macro Volatility, and Crime in the Determination of Beliefs in Venezuela -- Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna, and Robert MacCulloch -- 14 Understanding the Collapse: Venezuela's Experience in Cross-National Perspective -- Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez -- Contributors -- Illustrations.