A three-day international symposium held under the auspices of the Bildner Center at City University of New York. and spearheaded by its Director Mauricio Font, was held in March 2011. It was entitled Cuba Futures: Past and Present, and focused on the dynamics of change in contemporary Cuba—the politics, culture, economy.
A selection of the papers on the Cuban economy have been published on the web by the Bildner Centre. The are all hyperlinked here: Political Economy of Change in Cuba, Bildner Center, CUNY New York. A Table of Contents is presented below. Of special interest are the essays by the analysts from the Centro de Estudios sobre la Economia Cubana, Armando Nova, Camila Piñeiro, Pavel Vidal Alejandro and Omar Everleny Pérez .
Table of Contents
Preface xi
1 La actualización del modelo económico cubano, Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva
2 Forecasting Cuba’s Economy: 2, 5, and 20 Years, Emily Morris* 10
3 Las restricciones de divisas en la economía cubana, 2010, Pavel Vidal Alejandro 19
4 New Forms of Enterprise in Cuba’s Changing Economy, Camila Piñeiro Harnecker 43
5 Valoración del impacto de las medidas más recientes en los resultados de la agricultura en Cuba, Armando Nova González 63
6 Las nuevas transformaciones en la agricultura cubana: éxitos y desafíos, Reynaldo Jiménez Guethón 81
7 Cuba y el turismo norteamericano. Analisis de potencialidades y de impactos en la región caribeña, Gerardo González Núñez and Roberto Orro Fernández 9
78 Tourism in Cuba: Barriers to Economic Growth and Development Hilary Becker 117
9 Cuba: A Services-Centered Survival and Development Pattern, Alberto Gabriele 133
10 Theoretical Foundations of a Future Privatization in Cuba: The Property and Ownership Paradigm, Frank-Christian Hansel 155
11 Globalization and the Socialist Multinational: Cuba and ALBA’s Grannacional Projects at the Intersection of Business and Human Rights, Larry Catá Backer 183
