caa a22 4500 477077692 CHVBK 20180405111442.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00153238 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00153238 Baer Werner Department of Economics, University of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, IL aut Changing paradigms: Changing interpretations of the public sector in Latin America's economies [Elektronische Daten] [Werner Baer] This paper attempts to show that over time most economists' view of the role of the state in Latin America's economies has changed considerably. In the 1950s and 1960s state enterprises were considered to be an important instrument of economic development through Import Substitution Industrialization. The state and its enterprises were complementary rather than competitive with the private domestic and multinational sectors. The decadence of state enterprises occurred mainly in the 1970s and 1980s, when they were used as instruments of macroeconomic policies, when many abused their monopoly positions, and when there was increasing political interference in their operations. With state enterprises having increasingly a "crowding-out” effect, and with most countries of the region needing fiscal adjustments, privatization came into vogue. The rest of the paper concentrates on some of the positive and some of the problematical aspects of Latin America's privatization experience. I would like to thank Charles Mueller, Claudio Paiva and Eduardo Ribeiro for some very useful comments on the first draft of this essay. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 88/3-4(1996-09-01), 365-379 0048-5829 88:3-4<365 1996 88 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00153238 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00153238 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Baer Werner Department of Economics, University of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, IL aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 88/3-4(1996-09-01), 365-379 0048-5829 88:3-4<365 1996 88 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer