3. The Political Economy of Containment: Privatization, Austerity, and the MNR’s Shift to the Right, 1955–1964

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Natural Resources, Economic Visions, and US Intervention in Twentieth-Century Bolivia 1
6. 1. The Road to Resource Nationalism: Economic Ideas and Popular Coalitions in La Paz, 1927–1952 16
7. 2. A New Type of Bolivian Economy: Competing Visions, 1952–1956 35
8. 3. The Political Economy of Containment: Privatization, Austerity, and the MNR’s Shift to the Right, 1955–1964 59
9. 4. The Battle for Men’s Minds: Economic Paradigms, Propaganda, and the Iconography of Revolution 90
10. 5. The Limits of Containment: Anti-Austerity and Resource Nationalism in La Paz Factories 114
11. 6. Oil and Nation: The Crusade to Save Bolivia’s Hydrocarbons 149
12. Epilogue: Resource Nationalism and Popular Struggle in the Twenty-First Century 176
13. Appendix: Professional Backgrounds of Key Middle-Class Participants in Economic Debates, 1940s–1960s 187
14. Notes 191
15. Bibliography 239
16. Index 265