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The economic history of Latin America since independence / Victor Bulmer-Thomas

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge Latin American studies ; 77Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003 Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xxii, 481 p. : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521532744
  • 9780521532747
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.98/003
LOC classification:
  • HC 123  B938e 2003
Contents:
1. Latin American economic development: an overview; 2. The struggle for national identity - from independence to mid-century; 3. The export sector and the world economy: c.1850-1914; 4. Export-led growth - the supply side; 5. Export-led growth and the non-export economy; 6. The First World War and its aftermath; 7. Policy, performance, and structural change in the 1930s; 8. War and the new international economic order; 9. Inward-looking development in the postwar period; 10. New trade strategies and debt-led growth; 11. Debt, adjustment, and the shift to a new paradigm; 12. Conclusions.
Summary: Resumen de la editorial '... a comprehensive, accessible, and remarkably balanced account of Latin American history since independence.' Journal of Interdisciplinary History 'Victor Bulmer-Thomas wished to write a survey of the economic history of Latin America in the two centuries since the region achieved independence. In the goal he has succeeded admirably.' The American Historical Review 'In an ambitious, clearly written, and impressively documented economic history, Victor Bulmer-Thomas of the University of London examines the successes and failures of export-led growth in the nineteenth century, the withdrawal into inward-looking, import-substitution economics after the Great Depression, and the debt crisis of the 1980s.' Foreign Affair 'Bulmer-Thomas's chronological exposition is well organized and clearly developed, and he uses tables and graphs to good effect ... an excellent resource for clear and accessible overviews of issues, for statistics, and for bibliographic sources.' F. S. Weaver, Choice '[A] judicious and workmanlike attack on difficult problems of economic structure and policy. His analysis is thorough, rigorously independent and non-ideological.' Norman Gall, The Times Literary Supplement "Victor Bulmer-Thomas wished to write a survey of the economic history of Latin America in the two centuries since the region achieved independence. In the goal he has succeeded admirably." American Historical Review
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HC 123 B938e 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000020415

Previous edition: 1994

1. Latin American economic development: an overview; 2. The struggle for national identity - from independence to mid-century; 3. The export sector and the world economy: c.1850-1914; 4. Export-led growth - the supply side; 5. Export-led growth and the non-export economy; 6. The First World War and its aftermath; 7. Policy, performance, and structural change in the 1930s; 8. War and the new international economic order; 9. Inward-looking development in the postwar period; 10. New trade strategies and debt-led growth; 11. Debt, adjustment, and the shift to a new paradigm; 12. Conclusions.

Resumen de la editorial
'... a comprehensive, accessible, and remarkably balanced account of Latin American history since independence.' Journal of Interdisciplinary History 'Victor Bulmer-Thomas wished to write a survey of the economic history of Latin America in the two centuries since the region achieved independence. In the goal he has succeeded admirably.' The American Historical Review 'In an ambitious, clearly written, and impressively documented economic history, Victor Bulmer-Thomas of the University of London examines the successes and failures of export-led growth in the nineteenth century, the withdrawal into inward-looking, import-substitution economics after the Great Depression, and the debt crisis of the 1980s.' Foreign Affair 'Bulmer-Thomas's chronological exposition is well organized and clearly developed, and he uses tables and graphs to good effect ... an excellent resource for clear and accessible overviews of issues, for statistics, and for bibliographic sources.' F. S. Weaver, Choice '[A] judicious and workmanlike attack on difficult problems of economic structure and policy. His analysis is thorough, rigorously independent and non-ideological.' Norman Gall, The Times Literary Supplement "Victor Bulmer-Thomas wished to write a survey of the economic history of Latin America in the two centuries since the region achieved independence. In the goal he has succeeded admirably." American Historical Review

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