Authors’ note “In 1954, only 8 percent of French households had a refrigerator or a washing machine.” Jeremy D. Popkin, A History of Modern France, 2nd Edition. NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001, p. 255. We think of “fake news” as an answer to a question that has a more accurate response, and the answer is dispersed […]
What If Fulgencio Batista Had Been Black?
Author’s note El dominio de Batista sobre la vida política trajo ciertos cambios para los negros cubanos: el ex sargento era obviamente un mulato y, a pesar de su traición a la revolución de 1933,… Batista realizó— proponiéndoselo o no–varias tareas de importancia revolucionaria. —Lourdes Casal (1979 quote from Cultura Afrocubana, pp. 390–391) Fulgencio Batista […]
Taxation Levels in Cuba:and Other Topics of Rhetorical Interest
Notes1 This article is written as a result of a trip that the author made to Cuba in March 2003. Some of the non-economic aspects of the trip are brought out in an article that has been published elsewhere.2 The economic topics that follow are those that arose in conversations with people from Cuba, or […]
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Factor Analysis in Predicting Cuban GDP
Notes1 This paper has a dual purpose. At the technical level, it updates the work of Gitanjali Joglekar and Andrew Zimbalist (1989) on the use of factor analysis to estimate per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Cuba. At the analytical level, it questions the validity of this approach when the underlying economic structure of […]