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Latin America
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Dependency or Interdependence?
Edited by Michael Novak, Michael P. Jackson
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Latin America
Dimensions: 0.75'' x 9.25'' x 6.25''
186 pages
AEI Press  (Washington)
Publication Date: January 1985
Hardcover
ISBN: 0844722588
Price: $ 34.00
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This book, drawn from an AEI conference, brings the question of the multinational corporation in Latin America down from the clouds of mythology and bump it against hard earth.

Editor Michael Novak is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at AEI. Michael P. Jackson is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia.



Table of Contents

Foreword
Contributors

Introduction
Economic and Political Statism in Latin America
Multinational Corporations and Third World Investment
Latin America, Debt, Destruction, and Development
Private Investment, Taxes, and Economic Growth
Dependency: Ideology, Fad, and Fact
The Role of the Catholic Church in Latin American Development
The Role of Multinational Corporations in Latin American Development
Multinational Corporations in the Third World
Economic Revival: The Role of the Private Sector



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