The Economic History of Latin America since Independence - Rilegato

Bulmer-Thomas, Victor

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ISBN 10: 0521363292 ISBN 13: 9780521363297

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Riassunto

The Economic History of Latin America seeks to explain why, despite the region's abundance of natural resources and a favourable ratio of land to labour, not a single republic of Latin America has achieved the status of a developed country after nearly two centuries free from colonial rule. Taking its narrative from the end of the colonial epoch to the early 1990s, this book provides a comprehensive, balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic progress in Latin America. This book explains the successes and failures of export-led growth in the nineteenth century, and the withdrawal, after the depression of 1929, of many countries into a model of import-substitution industrialization. The debt crisis of the 1980s effectively ended hopes for the inward-looking approach, however, and the author examines the routes through which Latin American republics pursued a new version of export-led growth.

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'Bulmer-Thomas has written an extraordinary book. It is the first general economic history of modern Latin America to be published in a generation. No scholar working on modern Latin America can afford not to know and use this book.' John H. Coatsworth, Journal of Latin American Studies

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The Economic History of Latin America seeks to explain why the region has failed to achieve developed status. Taking its narrative from the end of the colonial epoch to the early 1990s, this book provides a comprehensive, balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic progress in Latin America.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521363292
• ISBN 13: 9780521363297
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 505