This book offers new topics and new perspectives on the economic history of Argentina before the 1930 Depression. It focuses on the evolution of early industrialization in a country …
This book is a detailed historical description of the evolution of corporate governance and stock markets in Brazil in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The analysis details …
The historiographies of Mexico and Brazil have implicitly stated that business networks were crucial for the initial industrialization of these two countries. Recently, differing visions on the …
At the end the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, the Orizaba Valley experienced two major revolutions that would radically transform what had been the way of …
Listen to a short interview with Philip T. Hoffman Host: Chris Gondek-Producer: Heron & Crane Financial disasters often have long-range institutional consequences. When financial …
N Maurer, T Sharma - The Journal of Economic History, 2001 - cambridge.org
Mexico's initial industrialization was based on firms that were “grouped”: that is, linked to other firms through close affiliations with a common bank. Most explanations for the …
E Beatty - Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, 2003 - muse.jhu.edu
The transfer of productive technologies from the industrial nations of the North Atlantic to the rest of the world underlay dramatic economic and social transformations in the 19th century …
P Riguzzi - Journal of Latin American Studies, 2009 - cambridge.org
This essay evaluates the political economy of Mexico during the Porfirian period (1876– 1911), with the aim of discussing advances in scholarship and presenting an outline of the …