Political institutions and economic growth in Latin America : essays in policy, history, and political economy / / edited by Stephen Haber
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, , [2000] |
| ©2000 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.98 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Latin America Economic conditions |
| Latin America Politics and government | |
| Altri autori: |
HaberStephen H. <1957->
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Political institutions and economic growth in Latin America |
| ISBN: | 0-8179-9668-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814426803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; 458.