Between 2010 and 2015, legal self-employment in Cuba (known locally as cuentapropismo) grew more than three-fold (Feinberg 2016; Ritter and Henken 2015). Now, more than 500,000 Cubans are licensed workers in 123 categories of small-business (e.g., food and clothing sales, accommodation rentals geared towards foreigners, tech/commodity repairs, etc.), a historic shift in a strict state […]