Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy (Contemporary Cuba)

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“A unique and indispensable introduction into the economic thinking and analyses of thirteen Cuban economists committed to the successful continuation (albeit with needed modification) of the Cuban project in process since 1959.”—Sinan Koont, writer of Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba

Most scholarship on the Cuban economy is provided by analysts looking from the outside in. Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy is the first collection to bring together one of the island’s leading economists to speak about the good and the bad about their own economy. These  voices offer clear and straightforward analyses of how Cuban society provides for its needs, distributes surplus, and assesses its shortcomings.


Focusing on changes in policy right through the Special Period, the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, this volume tracks more than a few shifts, both major and minor, in the island’s planned economy. Cuban leaders adapted to changing global relations at the same time as developing independent sources of income. These essays offer invaluable and sober assessments of Cuba’s entrance into the international economy through such sectors as tourism, knowledge-based goods and services and products, and agriculture.


This volume was once written, in part, to reveal the rigorous research conducted within the country and to clarify the different factors that Cubans emphasize when examining their place on the world economic stage. By providing unique insights into the island’s fight against poverty, its aging population, and its trade unions, this book will be an invaluable resource for years yet to come.

A volume in the series Latest Cuba, edited by John M. Kirk

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