ECONOMIC REFORMS IN 1970S COLOMBIA: ASSESSING THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF LÓPEZ MICHELSEN’S GOVERNMENT AND THE COFFEE BOOM*

Angela Rojas Rivera

Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 2015, vol. 33, issue 3, 487-519

Abstract: In this article I build an analytic narrative to provide an integrated and analytical view of the economic reforms that took place in Colombia during the years 1974-1978. Through the use of basic game theory and historical evidence, I present the core of the strategic interactions between several players: Government is depicted as a committed but poorly endowed agenda setter, Coffee as the dominant player and Industry as the contending but relatively weak player. The analysis shows that the 1976 coffee boom changed the interaction between sectors from an assurance to a prisoner’s dilemma game, and identifies as the post-boom solution the Government–Coffee coalition, which carried out a soft version of the initial reforms.

Date: 2015
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