Latin America and the World Economy since 1800

Edited by John H. Coatsworth

Edited by Alan M. Taylor

    List of Tables and Figures

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction

    John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor

    I. International Comparisons

    1. Economic and Institutional Trajectories in

    Nineteenth-Century Latin America John H. Coatsworth 2. Property Rights and Land Conflict: A Comparison of Settlement of the

    U.S.Western and Brazilian Amazon Frontiers Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, and

    Bernardo Mueller

    3. The Comparative Productivity Performance of Brazil and Mexico, 1950-1994

    Andre A. Hofman and Nanno Mulder

    PART 2. Patterns of Investment and Growth

    4. Business Finance and the Sao Paulo Bolsa, 1886-1917

    Anne Hanley

    5. Finance and Development in an Emerging Market:

    Argentina in the Interwar Period

    Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor

    6. Patterns of Foreign Investment in Latin America in the Twentieth Century

    Michael I. Twomey

    PART 3. Measuring National and International Integration

    7.Economic Development and Population Change: Argentina, 1810-1870

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John H. Coatsworth is Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and former Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Alan M. Taylor is Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis.