The institutionalisation of inequality in colonial Latin America -- The omnipresence of land inequality in post-colonial Latin America -- The advance of mass education: quantity or quality? -- The secular trend of income inequality, 1870-2000: theoretical and historical perspectives -- Changing patterns of factor income distribution, 1870-2000 -- The recent rise of urban wage inequality
Summary
Employing comparative and quantitative historical methods Frankema explores long run trends of asset and income distribution in Latin America, arguing that there is little reason to regard the yawning gap between rich and poor as the persistent result of a colonial heritage
