Through this paper, Dr. Goytisolo has discovered one more legal controversy caused by the unreasonable and non-planned legislation of the Castro regime. He prepared a well documented and informed study which evaluates the question of whether the revolutionary legislation affected the continued good standing of legal entities organized or doing business in Cuba during the […]

In their paper “External Debt Problems and the Principle of Solidarity: The Cuban Case,” Alberto Martínez-Piedra and Lorenzo Pérez have given a thorough account of the historical process of the debt of less developed countries (LDCs) and the present situation. At the same time, the authors try to frame the possible solution of the LDCs […]

This paper by Barton J. Bernales constitutes a positive contribution to ASCE’s work for it develops a Bayesian model to analyze and forecast the Cuban process. As we have said before in these meetings, it is necessary to foster the presentation of quantitative papers, like the present one by Bernales, that analyze Cuban issues. For […]

This paper has been a very interesting one for me to assess because it has brought together two of my intellectual interests and effectively married them. At present, I have two research projects on-going: one on the causes and consequences of self-employment in ethnic enterprises among various immigrant groups in the city of Chicago (Cubans, […]

It was professor Simon, the Nobel laureate, who once said that satisfizing is more often than not a far more attainable goal than optimizing. This was a recognition of how difficult it is to find optimal solutions of problems in the real world. This is what makes Professor Seiglie’s effort even the more remarkable and […]