title: Economic History of Puerto Rico: Institutional Change and Capitalist Development
author:  James L. Dietz 
description: "Dietz has written a remarkably comprehensive account of the historical background to all this, using the latest theoretical concepts in economic science to buttress his case that the industrialization program of the last thirty years has essentially failed to solve the problems of persistent structural unemployment, continuing inequities in income, escalating consumerism followed by massive personal indebtedness, and continuing structural dependency on the U.S. market system." (<i>American Historical Review</i>)<br /><br />
zlib_text: Administration of a Revolution 
  HARVARD POLITICAL STUDIES 
  Published under the direction of the 
  Department of Government in Harvard University 
  
  Administration 
  of a Revolution 
  Executive Reform in Puerto Rico under 
  GOVERNOR TUGWELL, 1941-1946 
  Charles T. Goodsell 
  HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 
  CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 
  · 1965 
  
  © Copyright 1965 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College 
  · All 
  rights reserved 
  · 
  Distributed in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, 
  London 
  · Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 65-16684 · Printed 
  in the United States of America 
  
  For Holly 
  
  FOREWORD, BY CARL J. FRIEDRICH 
  Puerto Rico, even now little understood by most people, was 
  terra incognita twenty-five years ago. By 1938, the situation 
  there had come to a real impasse. The standard of living of the 
  rural masses was abysmally low, far below even that of the 
  poorest state of the union. As Rexford Tugwell put it in a radio 
  address in 1942, "The New Deal never properly came to 
  Pu