La economía cubana: entre voluntarismo e intentos de planificación (1959-2012) The Cuban Economy: Between Voluntarism and Planning Attempts (1959-2012)

Abstract

Throughout more than fifty years, the Cuban Revolution has been unable to implement an Economic Management System ( ems) to face and overcome the traditional problems of centrally planned economies. When Cuban leaders tried to back away from the planning methods adopted in socialist countries, the economic management suffered from “voluntarism”, with invariably negative consequences. This article proposes a categorization of the economic cycle into upward phases –in which rational economic planning and organization predominate– and