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Political Institutions and Financial Development
Economists have long maintained that a well-developed and functioning financial system is a vital prerequisite to economic growth. Countries with robust banking sectors and …
James Madison
In recent years, the study of James Madison and his contributions to early American politics has enjoyed a growing audience among scholars and students of modern American politics. …
The Quest for “Just and Pure Law”
Focusing on the political culture forged by Rocky Mountain workers from the 1870s through the 1920s, this book shows how the unique working-class politics of the region led to …
An Economic and Demographic History of São Paulo, 1850-1950
São Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela. Its capital city is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the world. …
Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy
In 1890, Argentina was a wealthy nation on the brink of industrialization. Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy examines Argentina's failure over the next forty years to …
Institutions and Investment
Mexico began its long and often painful transition from an agricultural and rural society to one largely industrial and urban during the late “Porfiriato,” the period between 1890 …
Chimneys in the Desert
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 …
Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship
This innovative new book contributes simultaneously to two different disciplinary fields: comparative political economy and Mexican history. It does so by attempting to explain why …
The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930
Until the last decades of the nineteenth century, Mexico faced the twin problems of chronic political instability and slow economic growth. During the period of the Porfirio Díaz …
The Power and the Money
After its independence in 1821, Mexico experienced more than fifty years of political chaos until Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876. Thirty-five years later, Mexico entered …
Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 2
This work addresses the development of congressional practices and institutions and ties the changes to key political and economic events. In connecting political and economic …
Social Change, Industrialization, and the Service Economy in São Paulo, 1950-2020
In the 1950s–80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the "developing" countries, initially concentrated in the state of São Paulo. But from the 1980s, …