The Economic Transformation of Cuba: A First-Hand Account

Boorstein, Edward, The Economic Transformation of Cuba: A First-Hand Account, New York & London: Monthly Review Press, 1968.(book is damaged by termites and fungus but readable)

Reviewed in International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) © 1970.

Reviewed in The Economic Journal © 1968.

From the book inner sleeve:

Edward Boorstein is an American economist who arrived in Cuba in May, 1960, and for the next three years and a half worked in the top planning agencies of the Revolutionary Government. He has written a remarkable account of the problems, successes, and failures he witnessed. It is straight-forward, non-technical, fascinating, and nothing else like it exists in the entire literature on economic planning.