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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, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

xiv, 484 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• The Latin American economies, once among the most productive in the world, were already falling behind the advancing economies of the North Atlantic by 1800. A century later, nearly all were "underdeveloped." In the twentieth century, most grew respectably but none managed to catch up. What explains these trends? How important were Latin America's changing relations with the evolving global economy? What hypotheses should be rejected or modified?
• The fifteen essays in this volume apply the methods of the New Economic History to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors combine the historian's sensitivity to context and contingency with modern or "neoclassical" economic theory and quantitative methods.

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor -- I. International Comparisons. Ch. 1. Economic and Institutional Trajectories in Nineteenth-Century Latin America / John H. Coatsworth. Ch. 2. Property Rights and Land Conflict: A Comparison of Settlement of the U.S. Western and Brazilian Amazon Frontiers / Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller. Ch. 3. The Comparative Productivity Performance of Brazil and Mexico, 1950-1994 / Andre A. Hofman and Nanno Mulder -- II. Patterns of Investment and Growth. Ch. 4. Business Finance and the Sao Paulo Bolsa, 1886-1917 / Anne Hanley. Ch. 5. Finance and Development in an Emerging Market: Argentina in the Interwar Period / Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor. Ch. 6. Patterns of Foreign Investment in Latin America in the Twentieth Century / Michael J. Twomey -- III. Measuring National and International Integration. Ch. 7. Economic Development and Population Change: Argentina, 1810-1870 / Carlos Newland.
• Ch. 8. Banking and Money Markets in Brazil, 1889-1930 / Gail D. Triner. Ch. 9. Economic Growth in Argentina in the Period 1900-1930: Some Evidence from Stock Returns / Leonard I. Nakamura and Carlos E. J. M. Zarazaga -- IV. Institutions and Economic Growth. Ch. 10. The Efficiency Consequences of Institutional Change: Financial Market Regulation and Industrial Productivity Growth in Brazil, 1866-1934 / Stephen Haber. Ch. 11. Why Did Cuban Cane Growers Lose Autonomy? 1889-1929 / Alan Dye. Ch. 12. The Evolution of Prices and Real Wages in Mexico from the Porfiriato to the Revolution / Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato -- V. Government Policies and the External Sector. Ch. 13. Railroads in Imperial Brazil, 1854-1889 / William R. Summerhill. Ch. 14. Tariff Protection in Mexico, 1892-1909: Ad Valorem Tariff Rates and Sources of Variation / Graciela Marquez.
• Ch. 15. Latin America during the Interwar Period: The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico / Daniel Diaz Fuentes.

ISBN

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

LCCN

98040390

OCLC

ocm39671655

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries