Explorations in Latin American economic history /

Más que en otras regiones, el desarrollo económico a largo plazo de América Latina se ha utilizado para ejemplificar cómo los legados históricos dan forma al presente. Esta tesis profundiza en algunos de estos legados examinando cuatro grandes temas económicos de la historia de la región: la sosteni...

• Main Author: López Arnaut, Javier, 1981-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: [Groningen]: University of Groningen, 2017
• Subjects: HISTORIA ECONOMICA; AMERICA LATINA
• Online Access: https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/41715304/Complete_thesis.pdf

Table of Contents:

• 1. Explorations in Latin American economic history
• 2. The Fiscal Sustainability of Colonialism: A New Exploration of the Spanish American Treasuries, 1576-1810
• 3. Real Wages and the Mexican Revolution, 1877-1910: A Reappraisal
• 4. Did Import Substitution Promote Structural Change? A Comparative Study of Manufacturing Productivity in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, 1935-1975
• 5. Catching Up, Falling Behind, and the Role of Institutions: Explaining Productivity Growth in Latin America and Asia from a Sectoral perspective
• 6. Conclusions.