Liberty and Statism in Latin America
ABSTRACT
After their independence, the new Latin American republics entered a long period of civil wars and attempts to organize stable institutions that would guarantee progress and civil liberties. Classical liberalism became one of the most influential currents of thought. Unfortunately, different forms of authoritarianism and state interventionism replaced liberalism as a model of government for most of the twentieth century. This colloquium explored the reasons for this change, as well as its consequences for the future of liberty in the region.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Selection of documents on the Mexican Revolution: Programa del Partido Liberal (1906); Plan de Ayala (1911); Programa de Reformas Político-Sociales de la Convención (1916); Artículos 27 y 123 de la Constitución de 1917 (1917).
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Alberdi, Juan Bautista. “Sistema Rentístico y Económico de la Confederación Argentina según su Constitución de 1853.” http://www.eumed.net. http://www.eumed.net/cursecon/textos/2004/alberdi-sistema.pdf (accessed November 16, 2012).
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Carlos Altamirano. Bajo el Signo de las Masas (1943-1973). Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1944.
Eva Perón. La Razón de mi Vida. Buenos Aires: Peuser, 1951.
Francis Fukuyama, "Do Defective Institutions Explain the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States?." in Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States, Edited by Francis Fukuyama, 194-221. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
James A. Robinson, "The Latin American Equilibrium." in Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between the United States and Latin America, Edited by Francis Fukuyama, 161-193. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
John Williamson. "A Short History of the Washington Consensus." Fundación CIDOB - Conference: From the Washington Consensus towards a new Global Governance, Barcelona, September 24-25, 2004. http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/williamson0904-2.pdf (accessed June 15, 2009) .
John Williamson. "No hay consenso en el significado." F&D Finanzas y Desarrollo. Revista del FMI 40, no. 3 (2003): 13-10.
Juan Domingo Perón. Perón Expone su Doctrine. Buenos Aires: Editorial Nueva Argentina, 1947.
Love, Joseph, “Economic Ideas and Ideologies in Latin America since 1930” In The Cambridge History of Latin America. Volume VI, Part 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. 393-460.
Manuel Ayau. Un Juego que No Suma Cero: La Logica del intercambio y los derechos de propiedad. Guatemala: CEES, 2006.
Vargas Llosa, Alvaro. Liberty for Latin America. How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Opagesression . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.