Research Catalog

Title

Latin America and the world economy since 1800 / edited by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Coatsworth, John H., 1940-
• Taylor, Alan M., 1964-
• David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Description

xiv, 484 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Latin America > Economic conditions > 19th century
• Latin America > Economic conditions > 1918-
• Latin America > Foreign economic relations

Contents

Economic and institutional trajectories in nineteenth-century Latin America / John H. Coatsworth -- Property rights and land conflict: a comparison of settlement of the US Western and Brazilian Amazon frontiers / Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller -- The comparative productivity performance of Brazil and Mexico, 1950-1994 / André A. Hoffman and Nanno Mulder -- Business finance and the São Paolo Bolsa, 1886-1917 / Anne Hanley -- Finance and development in an emerging market: Argentina in the interwar period / Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor -- Patterns of foreign investment in Latin America in the twentieth century / Michael J. Twomey -- Economic development and population change: Argentina, 1810-1870 / Carlos Newland -- Banking and money markets in Brazil, 1889-1930 / Gail D. Triner -- Economic growth in Argentina in the period 1900-1930: some evidence from stock returns / Leonard I. Nakamura and Carlos E.J.M. Zarazaga -- The efficiency consequences of institutional change: financial market regulation and industrial productivity growth in Brazil, 1866-1934 / Stephen Haber -- Why did Cuban cane growers lose autonomy? 1889-1929 / Alan Dye -- The evolution of prices and real wages in Mexico from the Porfiriato to the revolution / Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato -- Railroads in imperial Brazil, 1854-1889 / William R. Summerhill -- Tariff protection in Mexico, 1892-1909: ad valorem tariff rates and sources of variation / Graciela Márquez -- Latin America during the interwar period: the rise and fall of the gold standard in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico / Daniel Díaz Fuentes.

Call Number

JBE 99-1796

ISBN

• 0674512804 (alk. paper)
• 0674512812 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

98040390

OCLC

39671655

Title

Latin America and the world economy since 1800 / edited by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c1998.

Added Author

Coatsworth, John H., 1940-

Taylor, Alan M., 1964-

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Research Call Number

JBE 99-1796