The Economic History of Latin America since Independence - Couverture souple

Bulmer-Thomas, Victor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521368723 ISBN 13 : 9780521368728

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Book by BulmerThomas Victor

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

'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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521368723
• ISBN 13: 9780521368728
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 505