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UNINA9910814426803321 |
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Titolo |
Political institutions and economic growth in Latin America : essays in policy, history, and political economy / / edited by Stephen Haber |
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Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, , [2000] |
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©2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Collana |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; number 458 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Latin America Economic conditions |
Latin America Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Institutional Change, Economic Growth,and Economic History - Stephen Haber; 2 Institutional Determinants of Railroad Subsidy and Regulation in Imperial Brazil - William R. Summerhill; 3 The Political Economy of Financial Market Regulation and Industrial Productivity Growth in Brazil, 1866-1934 - Stephen Haber; 4 Latin America and Foreign Capital in the Twentieth Century: Economics, Politics, and Institutional Change - Alan M. Taylor |
5 Schooling, Suffrage, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Americas, 1800-1945 - Elisa Mariscal and Kenneth L. Sokoloff 6 Privately and Publicly Induced Institutional Change:Observations from Cuban Cane Contracting, 1880-1936 - Alan Dye; 7 Concluding Remarks: The Emerging New Economic History of Latin America - Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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