| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Perspectives in economic and social history ; 17 |
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Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 17.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
The economic backwardness of Latin America and the Caribbean has long been discussed, but seldom been the subject of such a wide-ranging quantitative study. The twelve essays in this collection present a twenty-first-century analysis of a long-term issue, providing extensive geographical coverage and allowing reinterpretations of the past |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic history
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Wirtschaft
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Statistik
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| SUBJECT |
Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Statistics
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| Subject |
Latin America
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Lateinamerika
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| Genre/Form |
Statistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yáñez Gallardo, César
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Carreras, Albert
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| LC no. |
2013496824 |
| ISBN |
9781317320883 |
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1317320883 |
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9781317320890 |
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1317320891 |
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9781848933248 |
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184893324X |
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