Introduction Cuba has been facing increasingly challenging economic problems since the fall of the Soviet Union[1] and the end of the Soviet system of state-to-state based economic activity.[2] In the absence of Soviet aid, and in the face of U.S. political and economic hostility,[3] Cuba has sought new partners and allies.[4] Cuba also has increasingly experimented with innovative ways of organizing economic activity that avoid reducing the paramount power of the State to own and control… [read post]

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer; Tauluseinä Tavelväggen, Wall of Printings (1977); Nörrköping Art Museum Turku Findland))Every year for almost 25 years, the Corporate Practice Commentator (with great thanks to Robert Thompson (Georgetown)) announces the results of its annual poll to select the ten best corporate and securities articles. [read post]