Overview
- Uses a uniform set of parameters in order to assess the economic contribution of exports to Latin American economies during the period in which they followed an export-led pattern of growth
- Presents new evidence that allows testing of the claims that conventional wisdom has made about Latin America during the export era
- Provide tools to inductively build a new interpretive synthesis for Latin America
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Winner of the Vicens Vives prize for the best economic history book granted by the Spanish Economic History Association.
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Keywords
- Economic Development
- Macroeconomics
- Bolivian economy
- Brazilian economy
- Colombian economy
- Argentinian economy
- Chilean economy
- Peruvian economy
- Mexican economy
- Uruguayan economy
- Settler economy
- Economic integration
- Economic growth
- First export era
- Latin American economies
- Latin America’s economic contribution
- latin american politics
Table of contents (9 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The First Export Era Revisited
Book Subtitle: Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies
Editors: Sandra Kuntz-Ficker
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62340-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62339-9Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87295-7Published: 28 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62340-5Published: 19 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 348
Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Latin American History, Latin American Politics, Latin American and Caribbean Economics, Development Economics