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The Political Economy of Latin America in the Postwar Period. By Laura Randall. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 319. Maps. Tables. Charts. Notes. Index. $30.00 Cloth, $15.95 Paper.)

This is a collection of excellent essays of the primarily post-1950 economic history of Chile by William F. Maloney, Brazil by Werner Baer and Claudio Paiva, Mexico by Miguel Ramirez, Argentina by Robert McComb and Carlos E. J. M. Zarazaga, Peru by Efrain Gonzales de Olarte, Ecuador by Joan B. Anderson, and Cuba by Carmelo Mesa-Lago. The introductory essay by Laura Randall, who deserves laurels for putting this fine textbook compendium together, summarizes the economic evolution of Latin America between 1950 and 1990 and the major findings of the country studies. In spite of common features, such as having either Spanish or Portuguese as official languages, these essays reveal truly idiosyncratic economic structures and historical evolutions. Latin America is revealed as far more diverse than Europe of many languages.