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Political institutions and economic growth in Latin America : essays in policy, history, and political economy /

Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America offers a new contribution to the literature on institutions and growth through the analysis of historical cases of institutional change and economic growth in Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haber, Stephen H., 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2000]
Colección:Hoover Institution Press publication ; 458.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: institutional change, economic growth, and economic history / Stephen Haber
  • Institutional determinants of railroad subsidy and regulation in Imperial Brazil / William R. Summerhill
  • The political economy of financial market regulation and industrial productivity growth in Brazil, 1866-1934 / Stephen Haber
  • Latin America and foreign capital in the twentieth century: economics, politics, and institutional change / Alan M. Taylor
  • Schooling, suffrage, and the persistence of inequality in the Americas, 1800-1945 / Elisa Mariscal and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
  • Privately and publicly induced institutional change: observations from Cuban cane contracting, 1880-1936 / Alan Dye
  • Concluding remarks: the emerging new economic history of Latin American / Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast.