Research Catalog

Title

The economies of Latin America : new cliometric data / edited by César Yáñez and Albert Carreras.

Publication

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Yáñez Gallardo, César.
• Carreras, Albert.

Description

xvi, 240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Perspectives in economic and social history ; 17

Uniform Title

Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 17.

Subject

• Latin America > Economic conditions > 20th century > Statistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / César Yáñez and Albert Carreras -- Introduction: Latin American economic backwardness revisited / César Yáñez and Albert Carreras -- Expectations, institutions and economic performance: Latin America and the Western European periphery during the twentieth century / Albert Carreras -- On the accuracy of Latin American trade statistics: a non-parametric test for 1925 / María del Mar Rubio and Mauricio Folchi -- Latin America and its main trade partners, 1860-1930: did the First World War affect geographical patterns? / Marc Badia-Miró and Anna Carreras-Marín -- The structure of Latin American investment in equipment goods during the mature period of the first globalization / Xavier Tafunell -- Factorial distribution of income in Latin America, 1950-2000: new series from the national account data / Vicente Neira Barría -- The influence of the First World War on the economies of Central America, 1900-29: an analysis from a foreign trade perspective / Frank Notten -- Economic modernization in adverse institutional environments: the cases of Cuba and Chile / César Yáñez -- Capital goods imports, machinery investment and economic development in the long run: the case of Chile / André A. Hofman and Cristián Ducoing -- The sugar industry, the forests and the Cuban energy transition, from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century / José Jofré González -- Empirical debate on terms of trade and the double factorial terms of trade in Colombia, 1975-2006 / Santiago Colmenares -- Public revenues in Bolivia, 1900-31 / José Alejandro Peres Cajías -- The consumption of durable goods in Latin America, 1890-1913: analysis and estimation of a demand function / Carolina Román Ramos.

Call Number

JFE 15-7163

ISBN

• 1848933231
• 9781848933231

LCCN

2013496824

OCLC

756607278

Title

The economies of Latin America : new cliometric data / edited by César Yáñez and Albert Carreras.

Imprint

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Perspectives in economic and social history ; 17

Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 17.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Yáñez Gallardo, César.

Carreras, Albert.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7163