What do ordinary citizens in developing countries think about free
markets? Conventional wisdom views globalization as an imposition
on unwilling workers in developing nations, concluding that the
recent rise of the Latin American left constitutes a popular
backlash against the market. In this book, Baker marshals public
opinion data from eighteen Latin American countries to show that
most of the region's citizens are enthusiastic about globalization
because it has lowered the prices of many consumer goods and
services while improving their variety and quality. Among recent
free-market reforms, only privatization has caused pervasive
discontent because it has raised prices for services like
electricity and telecommunications. Citizens' sharp awareness of
these consumer consequences informs Baker's argument that a
political economy of consumption has replaced a previously dominant
politics of labor and class in Latin America.
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