MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE HAND OF NEOLIBERAL THOUGHT IN COSTA RICA: BIRTH AND TRAJECTORY OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (ANFE): 1958-1975

The following article deals with Costa Rican intellectual and political history, particularly focusedon the National Association of Economic Development (AsociaciónNacional de FomentoEconómico-ANFE).This organization was created in 1958 with the purpose of studying and transforming the Costa Rican S...

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Author: Marchena Sanabria, Jorge
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2011
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repository:Portal de Revistas UNA
Language:Spanish
English
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/3879
Online Access:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/abra/article/view/3879
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:intellectual and political history
neoliberalism
elites
ANFE
Costa Rica
historia intelectual y política
neoliberalismo
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Summary:The following article deals with Costa Rican intellectual and political history, particularly focusedon the National Association of Economic Development (AsociaciónNacional de FomentoEconómico-ANFE).This organization was created in 1958 with the purpose of studying and transforming the Costa Rican State in the second half of the twentieth century and proposing policies aimed at developing the economy, making it more consistent with the free-market and reduction of state interventionliberal models.The article is part of a more extensive investigation, for which a wider corpus of documents was analyzed than the one cited here.