Politics or Markets? Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment — Mats Lundahl (1992) Argument and Method

Politics or Markets? Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment — Mats Lundahl (1992) Lundahl's second major Haiti volume, collecting essays that examine the relationship between political structure and economic stagnation. The central argument: Haiti's endemic underdevelopment is not a product of market failure or resource scarcity alone but of a predatory political system — clientelism, extraction, and the deliberate suppression of autonomous economic activity — that actively prevents the institutional preconditions for growth.