Collapse of Venezuela

Francisco Rodríguez is the Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies. He is the co-editor of Venezuela before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse.

• PrefacePart 1. The Political Economy of Economic Collapse1. How Economies Self-Destruct2. The Great Contraction3. Scorched Earth PoliticsPart 2. The Unraveling of Venezuela's Populist Experiment, 2012-20154. Populism Unplugged5. Enter Maduro6. Living Dangerously7. Elections, The Stakes of Power, and Economic PoliciesPart 3. The Descent Into Economically Destructive Political Conflict, 2016-20208. Becoming Toxic9. Sanctioning Venezuela10. Politicians Without BordersPart 4. Extending the Framework11. Scorched Earth Politics Beyond Venezuela12. Venezuela Beyond Scorched Earth PoliticsReferences

"The Collapse of Venezuela is the definitive account of the collapse of the Venezuelan economy. Rodríguez provides not only a page-turning play-by-play of the economic policy decisions that destroyed more than 70 percent of Venezuela's GDP but also a startling new theory of economically destructive political conflict." —Dorothy Kronick, University of California, Berkeley