During the course of the past several years, diverse private and publicly owned foreign companies have signed contracts with Cuban government owned companies in order to establish the terms and conditions under which they invest in Cuba. Joint venture contracts regulate among other things the way that profits are shared, but parallel to these contracts, […]

The incumbent Cuban regime, a personalistic and charismatic dictatorship with an idiosyncratic mix of national-military, egalitarian, anti-American and anti-capitalist as well as residual Communist elements, is difficult to place among traditional regime categories. Although the regime has passed through several distinct phases in the past forty years, there has been one dialectical constant—the dominant presence […]

For an author, a comparative study on countries he has been analyzing for three or more decades represents a major challenge. How to deal with the issue of the conclusions of previous analyses influencing the results of the new? Carmelo Mesa-Lago faced several challenges in Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies. First, selecting national researchers who […]

Desde la primera Reunión Anual de ASCE, en agosto de 1991, el llamado “Decálogo” de nuestro genial y querido Presidente Felipe Pazos, nos ha servido de marco conceptual y operativo para seleccionar y desarrollar el enfoque temático de nuestros trabajos y discusiones, incluyendo las expectativas y supuestos básicos sobre en qué consistiría, cuándo y cómo […]

The demise of socialism in Eastern Europe and the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union brought an end to decades of preferential trading arrangements upon which the Cuban economy had come to rely. The initial response to this crisis by the Cuban government was, among other things, to issue a call for the Cuban economy […]