The Economic History of Latin America Since IndependenceCambridge University Press, 2003 M08 4 - 481 páginas A comprehensive balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic development in Latin America, first published in 2003. |
Contenido
Latin American economic development an overview | 1 |
The struggle for national identity from independence to midcentury | 19 |
The colonial legacy | 22 |
The economic consequences of independence | 28 |
The freetrade question | 31 |
The export sector | 33 |
The nonexport economy | 38 |
Regional differences | 42 |
Recovery from the Depression | 204 |
The international environment and the export sector | 211 |
Recovery of the nonexport economy | 218 |
The transition toward inwardlooking development | 226 |
War and the new international economic order | 232 |
Trade and industry in the Second World War | 233 |
Trade surpluses fiscal policy and inflation | 242 |
The postwar dilemma | 250 |
The export sector and the world economy circa 18501914 | 46 |
World demand and the exportled growth model | 50 |
Export performance | 57 |
Export cycles | 69 |
The pattern of external trade | 72 |
The terms of trade and international transport costs | 78 |
Exportled growth the supply side | 82 |
The labor market | 84 |
Land | 91 |
Capital markets | 95 |
Foreign investment | 101 |
The policy context | 107 |
Exportled growth and the nonexport economy | 117 |
Domesticuse agriculture | 119 |
Manufacturing and its origins | 127 |
Industry and relative prices | 137 |
Regional differences on the eve of the First World War | 146 |
The First World War and its aftermath | 152 |
The collapse of the old order | 153 |
Trade strategies | 161 |
Exchangerate financial and fiscal reform | 171 |
External shocks relative prices and the manufacturing sector | 180 |
Policy performance and structural change in the 1930s | 189 |
The Depression of 1929 | 191 |
Shortterm stabilization | 196 |
The new international economic order | 259 |
Inwardlooking development in the postwar period | 268 |
The inwardlooking model | 270 |
Outwardlooking countries | 280 |
Regional integration | 288 |
Growth income distribution and poverty | 298 |
New trade strategies and debtled growth | 313 |
Export promotion | 316 |
Export substitution | 323 |
Primaryexport development | 330 |
The state public enterprise and capital accumulation | 339 |
Debtled growth | 346 |
Debt adjustment and the shift to a new paradigm | 353 |
From debt crisis to debt burden | 355 |
External adjustment | 363 |
Internal adjustment stabilization and the exchangerate problem | 372 |
Growth equity and inflation since the debt crisis | 382 |
Latin America and globalization | 389 |
Conclusions | 392 |
Data sources for population and exports before 1914 | 411 |
The ratio of exports to gross domestic product the purchasing power of exports and the volume of exports circa 1850 to circa 1912 | 419 |
Gross domestic product per head 1913 1928 1980 and 2000 | 423 |
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The Economic History of Latin America since Independence Victor Bulmer-Thomas Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |
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