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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814426803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

0-8179-9668-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; number 458

Altri autori (Persone)

HaberStephen H. <1957->

Disciplina

338.98

Soggetti

Latin America Economic conditions

Latin America Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.