The First Export Era Revisited : Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies

Sandra Kuntz-Ficker

ISBN 10: 3319623397 / ISBN 13: 9783319623399

Editore: Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2017

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth upon Latin America during the first export era. The contributors to this volume contest conventional approaches, stemming from structuralism and dependency theory, which portray a rather negative view of the impact of nineteenth-century globalization upon Latin America. It has been considered that, as a result of the role of Latin American countries as providers of raw materials produced in enclaves dominated by foreign capital, their participation in the world economy has had adverse consequences for their long-term development. This volume addresses a representative sample of countries with varied initial conditions and resource endowments, a diverse productive specialization, as well as different degrees of integration to the world economy. This allows a direct comparison among the different experiences within the region, which in turn enables a more nuanced understanding of the contribution of exports to economic growth and economic modernization. Seven national case studies are presented - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico and Bolivia - which offer an insight into the successes of a region traditionally viewed as disadvantaged by globalization and export-led growth.Winner of theVicens Vives prize for the best economic history book granted by the Spanish Economic History Association.

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• Titolo: The First Export Era Revisited : Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies
• Editore: Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature Switzerland
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3319623397
• ISBN 13: 9783319623399
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 216 L x 153 A x 25 P (millimetri) 216 millimetri di larghezza per 153 millimetri di altezza per 25 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 588 grammi

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This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth upon Latin America during the first export era. The contributors to this volume contest conventional approaches, stemming from structuralism and dependency theory, which portray a rather negative view of the impact of nineteenth-century globalization upon Latin America. It has been considered that, as a result of the role of Latin American countries as providers of raw materials produced in enclaves dominated by foreign capital, their participation in the world economy has had adverse consequences for their long-term development. This volume addresses a representative sample of countries with varied initial conditions and resource endowments, a diverse productive specialization, as well as different degrees of integration to the world economy. This allows a direct comparison among the different experiences within the region, which in turn enables a more nuanced understanding of the contribution of exports to economic growth and economic modernization. Seven national case studies are presented – Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico and Bolivia – which offer an insight into the successes of a region traditionally viewed as disadvantaged by globalization and export-led growth.

Winner of the Vicens Vives prize for the best economic history book granted by the Spanish Economic History Association.

Informazioni sull'autore

Sandra Kuntz-Ficker is Professor of Economic History at El Colegio de México, Mexico. She has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford, USA. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Science (AMC) and  the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association (IEHA). She specializes in the economic history of Mexico and Latin America from the nineteenth- through to the mid-twentieth century.