The economies of Latin America
Subtitle: new cliometric data
By: edited by César Yáñez and Albert Carreras
Series: Perspectives in economic and social history -- 17; Perspectives in economic and social history -- no. 17.
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781848933231
Subjects: Economic conditions; Statistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / César Yáñez and Albert Carreras; title: Introduction: Latin American economic backwardness revisited / César Yáñez and Albert Carreras; title: Expectations, institutions and economic performance: Latin America and the Western European periphery during the twentieth century / Albert Carreras; title: On the accuracy of Latin American trade statistics: a non-parametric test for 1925 / María del Mar Rubio and Mauricio Folchi; title: Latin America and its main trade partners, 1860-1930: did the First World War affect geographical patterns? / Marc Badia-Miró and Anna Carreras-Marín; title: The structure of Latin American investment in equipment goods during the mature period of the first globalization / Xavier Tafunell; title: Factorial distribution of income in Latin America, 1950-2000: new series from the national account data / Vicente Neira Barría; title: The influence of the First World War on the economies of Central America, 1900-29: an analysis from a foreign trade perspective / Frank Notten; title: Economic modernization in adverse institutional environments: the cases of Cuba and Chile / César Yáñez; title: Capital goods imports, machinery investment and economic development in the long run: the case of Chile / André A. Hofman and Cristián Ducoing; title: The sugar industry, the forests and the Cuban energy transition, from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century / José Jofré González; title: Empirical debate on terms of trade and the double factorial terms of trade in Colombia, 1975-2006 / Santiago Colmenares; title: Public revenues in Bolivia, 1900-31 / José Alejandro Peres Cajías; title: The consumption of durable goods in Latin America, 1890-1913: analysis and estimation of a demand function / Carolina Román Ramos.