Word: latinization
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...Argentine-born Andres Oppenheimer, a Miami Herald columnist and co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, contrasts Latin America with tigers like Ireland and China in Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do (Random House; 300 pages). He tells the story of an Indiana businessman who, on a visit to the Great Wall, grouses that his Mexican clients don't "reinvest in their companies or improve the quality of their materials like the Chinese." Latin America's bane, Oppenheimer suggests, is "peripheral blindness"--measuring itself against its past instead of its contemporary competitors...
Optimism for this so-called third-Way economics is amplified in Michael Reid's Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul (Yale University Press; 400 pages). Reid, editor of the Americas section of the Economist, concedes that Latin America's chronic ills, especially its inequality between rich and poor, are among the world's worst. But his comparison of past and present yields a more sanguine picture: the region is "one of the world's most important testing laboratories for the viability of democratic capitalism as a global project." Reid insists that Latin America's democratic and capitalist...
Jerry Haar, a business dean at Florida International University, and John Price, head of Latin American business intelligence at Kroll InfoAmericas, offer reform advice for the hemisphere in Can Latin America Compete? Confronting the Challenges of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan; 336 pages...
Their most welcome suggestion is to make small- and medium-size business a priority, and they take Latin America to task for doing less than 3% of the world's R&D spending while Asia accounts for more than a third of it. If more of the region's leaders had taken counsel like this a decade ago, Hugo Chávez and the Latin left might not have such a large, impoverished crowd to play to today. Whether or not this is the century of the Americas, these books offer a guide to how Latin America can enter...
...Schacter says, describing the advantages of playing with well-known figures in jazz. A music concentrator, Schachter also notes that guest artists help students understand the intensity of work necessary to make a life as a musician. Schachter, who has played with clarinetist Don Byron, singer Jon Hendricks, Latin jazz pioneer Eddie Palmieri, trumpeter Brian Lynch, drummer Bobby Sanabria, and pianist Geri Allen, also notes a more ephemeral benefit. “There’s this kind of energy or magic that comes out of meeting someone who’s doing what you’re interested...