Notes1 The U. S. Department of State asserts that “the protection of intellectual property rights is an essential element of U. S. economic foreign policy. The United States government is fundamentally committed to protecting intellectual property rights on U. S. goods and services in domestic and international markets” (USDOS, 2000, June 12). The exercise of […]
The Cuban Cigar Industry as the Transition Approaches
For many decades, premium Cuban cigars have served as the world standard against which other cigars are judged. The story is told that, immediately before President John F. Kennedy approved the embargo against Cuba in 1962, he sent an assistant to Washington tobacco shops to buy up the available supply of the hand-made Cuban cigars […]
Cuban Tourism, Economic Growth, and the Welfare of the Cuban Worker
The recent boom in Cuban tourism is a classic example of maximization under constraints. Hampered by the tightened U.S. embargo and by the disappearance of substantial economic aid from the former Communist Bloc countries, the Cuban government has exploited one of the few growth sectors open to it. Joint ventures with companies from foreign countries […]
Alternative Policies to Deal With Labor Surpluses During the Cuba Transition
Note[ref]This is a revised version of the longer paper presented at the 1996 ASCE Annual Meetings. Some portions of this study appeared in an earlier paper, “Planning for a Free Market Labor Force in Post-Transition Cuba,” presented at the Allied Social Science Association meetings in San Francisco, California, January 4-7, 1996.[/ref] It is axiomatic that […]
Cuban Citrus Production in a Post-Transition Economy
When the transition from a centrally-planned economy to a market system finally occurs in Cuba, a number of important industries whose growth has been slowed or depressed will face conditions more favorable to expansion. Once the U.S. embargo is lifted, institutional change occurs, and foreign capital flows into the reviving system, market alignments for major […]