Roots of Underdevelopment : A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean

• Autore: Valencia Caicedo Felipe
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (601 pages)
• Disciplina: 338.98
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Praise for Roots of Underdevelopment -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Historical Development in Latin America -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature -- 3 Book Plan -- 3.1 Chapter Summaries -- 3.2 Unifying Themes and Lessons -- 3.3 Teaching Plan -- 4 Acknowledgements -- 5 Discussion and Concluding Remarks -- References -- Latin American Economic History in the Light of the Recent Economic Cycles -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Latin America in the World Economy: Convergence and Divergence -- 2.1 Regional Pattern -- 2.2 Regional Diversity -- 3 Crises and Their Association with External Determinants -- 3.1 The Terms of Trade -- 3.2 Financial Crises -- 3.3 Major Latin American Growth Collapses and Their Links to External Shocks -- 4 Social Development -- 4.1 Human Development -- 4.2 Income Distribution and Poverty -- 5 Present Challenges from a Historical Perspective -- References -- The Making of Mexico: The Political Economy of Conquest and Independence -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Decentralized Empire, Fragmented Empire -- 3 The Conquest: Decentralized Governance -- 4 From Habsburgs to Bourbons: Two Governance Models -- 5 Independence: Imperial Fragmentation -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Checks and Balances in the Colonial Government of Peru: Evidence from Office Prices -- 1 The Institutional Framework of the Colonial Government in Peru -- 1.1 Vertical and Horizontal "Checks" -- 1.2 The Advent of Office-Selling -- 2 Analysis -- 2.1 Data and Methodology -- 3 Corregimiento Prices and Institutional Constraints -- 3.1 Alternative Explanations -- 4 Discussion -- Appendix -- References -- The Legacy of Concertaje in Ecuador -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Background -- 2.1 Concertaje -- 2.2 Labor Requirements and Coercion -- 3 Data and Identification Strategy -- 3.1 Instrumental Variable -- 3.2 Concertaje. ; 3.2.1 Contemporary Outcomes -- 4 Results -- 5 Mechanisms -- 5.1 Human Capital Accumulation -- 5.2 Sectoral Composition -- 5.3 Public Goods Provision -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Public Education and Indigenous People in Bolivia, 1880s-1950s -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Education in Bolivia Before the 1952 Revolution -- 3 Data -- 4 Human Capital Accumulation in Bolivian Departments -- 5 Education Change by Ethnicity, 1880s-1950s -- 6 Education Change in La Paz, 1890s-1940s -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Social Mobility and Effects on Growth: A Review of Recent Evidence -- 3.1 Economic Outcomes of European Migrants in Argentina -- 3.2 The Impacts of Immigration on Economic Development -- 4 Who Moved to Argentina? An Analysis of Italian Migration -- 4.1 Differences in Literacy, Accounting for Demographic Structure -- 4.2 Adjusting for Regional Gaps -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- European Immigration and Agricultural Productivity in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1898-1920 -- 1 The Assignment of Immigrants to Farms -- 2 Data and Methodology -- 3 Conclusions -- References -- Modernizing Elites in Latin America: Social-Network Evidence from the Emergence of Banking in Antioquia, Colombia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Context: The Modernization of Antioquia -- 3 Emergence and Consolidation of Banking in Antioquia -- 3.1 Regulation and Banking Cycles -- 3.2 Banks' Ownership in Antioquia -- 4 Bankers as Part of the Elite -- 4.1 The Elite of Antioquia and Their Social Network -- 4.2 Bankers as a Community -- 4.3 The Centrality of Bankers -- 5 Banking Profits and the Value of Social Connections -- 6 The Amalgamation of Bankers and Industrialists -- 7 Final Remarks -- Appendixes -- Social-interaction Data -- Additional Tables -- References. ; Colombia: Democratic but Violent? -- 1 Introduction: Colombia's Puzzle -- 2 Democracy Can Breed Conflict -- 3 Democracy and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Colombia -- 4 Is Democratic Power-Sharing Conflict-Reducing? -- 5 The Limits of Power-Sharing in Weakly Institutionalized Environments -- 6 Institutional Capture and How Democratization Can Backfire -- 7 Political Rents from Disorder -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Political Conflict and Economic Growth in Post-independence Venezuela -- 1 The Lost Nineteenth Century -- 2 The Lost Quarter-Century -- 3 The Worst Recession -- 4 Political Conflict and Economic Growth -- References -- The Plantation Economy of Suriname in the Eighteenth Century -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early Developments Through 1750 -- 3 Suriname in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century -- 4 The Plantations -- 5 Crisis -- 6 Slavery from Crisis to Abolishment -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- The Legacy of the Pinochet Regime in Chile -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Rise and Fall of the Pinochet Regime -- 2.1 The Installation -- 2.2 Repression and Market-Based Policies -- 2.3 The Transition to Democracy -- 3 The Persistent Economy -- 3.1 Growth and Inequality -- 3.2 Prominent Economic Policies -- 3.3 Business Elites -- 4 The Political Persistence -- 4.1 Firms as Political Vehicles -- 4.2 The Persistence of Dictatorship Politicians -- 5 The Quest for Institutional Change -- 5.1 Early Waves of Discontent -- 5.2 Explosion and Institutional Response -- 6 Moving Forward -- References -- Missionaries and Soldiers in the Forging of Modern Paraguay -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Guaraní Jesuit Missions -- 3 Cultural Mechanisms -- 3.1 Occupational Persistence -- 3.2 Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission -- 3.3 Indigenous Assimilation -- 4 Triple Alliance War -- 4.1 Identification Strategy -- 5 Main Findings -- 5.1 Short-Term Effects. ; 5.1.1 Out-Of-Wedlock Births -- 5.2 Female Education -- 5.3 Marriage Market -- 5.4 Interpretation and Discussion -- 6 Long-Term Impacts: Cross-Border Analysis -- 7 Long-Term Impacts: Within Paraguay Analysis -- 8 Mechanisms -- 9 Conclusions -- References -- Uruguay: The Rise of a Monocentric Economy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Montevideo's Primacy: Stylized Facts and Origins -- 3 Primacy and Transport Infrastructure -- 4 Primacy, Structural Change, and Policy -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- The Lasting Development Impacts of El Salvador's 1980 Land Reform -- 1 Land Inequality and Land Reforms in Latin America -- 2 Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador -- 3 The 1980 Land Reform in El Salvador -- 4 The Lasting Impacts of the 1980 Land Reform on Agricultural Choices, Production, and Worker Incomes -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Global Firms and Local Development: Evidence from Costa Rica -- 1 A Surprising Result -- 2 Fruitful Investments -- 3 Institutions and Labor Mobility -- 4 Learning from the Past -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Protestant Doctrinal Heterodoxy and Heterogeneity in Guatemala 1880s to 1950s -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Pentecostalism Comes to Guatemala -- 3 The Comity Agreements Among Protestant Missions -- 4 Why the Roman Catholic Church Could not Compete -- 5 How U.S. Mission Boards Encouraged Doctrinal Heterogeneity -- 6 The Legacy of Heterodoxy -- References -- The Expansion of Public Education in Puerto Rico after 1900 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Public Education in Puerto Rico, 1898-1948 -- 2.1 Spanish Attempts at Reforms -- 2.2 The Regime Change -- 2.3 American Attempts at Reform -- 3 Main Trends in Primary Education -- 4 Agricultural Production and Education -- 5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Historical Persistence, Possibilism and Utopias in Latin America and the Caribbean. ; 1 Introduction -- 2 The Quest to Bring Historical Data to Common-Sense Theoretical Ideas -- 3 The Makeup of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples -- 4 The Problematic Character of the Nation-state as a Unit of Analysis -- 5 The Promise of a Latin American Utopia and Historical Political Economy -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Roots of Underdevelopment
• ISBN: 3-031-38723-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910767502403321
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