Description
This book includes groundbreaking topic which is drawing increasing interest, and there is very little research or findings for people to discuss. As a result, Kirsty’s work is popular and frequently cited. It is an extremely timely work – institutions are a matter of enormous concern in the international development community of policy-makers, who are desperate to make current orthodoxy work in terms of sustainability, the quality of life, human development and other dimensions beyond GDP growth. This book is oriented to public policy, politics, economics, development studies, and Latin American Studies. It successfully turns complex economic ideas into useful tools which are surprisingly easy to grasp.Kirsten Sehnbruch uses the case study of Chile to show the failures and inner-working of neo-liberal labour policy. She shows in detail what the real policy issue should be, namely the creation of proper institutions and of a corps of competent professionals with relevant skills and powers to operate them.
