The Great Depression In Latin America

Author : Paulo Drinot,Alan Knight
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822376248

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The Great Depression in Latin America by Paulo Drinot,Alan Knight Pdf

Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of the state, party-political competition, and the formation of working-class and other social and political movements. Going beyond economic history, they chart the repercussions and policy responses in different countries while noting common cross-regional trends--in particular, a mounting critique of economic orthodoxy and greater state intervention in the economic, social, and cultural spheres, both trends crucial to the region's subsequent development. The book also examines how regional transformations interacted with and differed from global processes. Taken together, these essays deepen our understanding of the Great Depression as a formative experience in Latin America and provide a timely comparative perspective on the recent global economic crisis. Contributors. Marcelo Bucheli, Carlos Contreras, Paulo Drinot, Jeffrey L. Gould, Roy Hora, Alan Knight, Gillian McGillivray, Luis Felipe Sáenz, Angela Vergara, Joel Wolfe, Doug Yarrington

Author : Rosemary Thorp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349175543

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Latin America in the 1930s by Rosemary Thorp Pdf

This is the new edition of the highly acclaimed Latin America in the 1930s , a text which has proved invaluable for teachers, researchers and students alike. The second edition has been revised and updated, including a new preface and updated statistical material, to form the second volume in An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America . This book confronts the puzzle of Latin America's rapid recovery from the collapse in world markets and capital flows in the late 1920s. It shows how far the safety valves which made recovery possible in the 1930s were not available fifty years later. It documents the impact of crisis on the changing role of the state and on institutional development. The Central American case studies have been updated with significantly improved data.

Author : Carlos Marichal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Debts, External
ISBN : UCAL:B4447296

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A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America by Carlos Marichal Pdf

Carlos Marichal contends that the boom-and-bust cycles of Latin American foreign loans result mainly from the fluctuations of the world economy, rather than from errors made in Latin America itself. Marichal shows that the present debt crisis is only a part of an overall pattern in Latin American history--cycles of loan boom and subsequent debt crisis that are heavily influenced by fluctuations of international trade and capital flows. He also reveals the significant role played by those who implement debt policies. Examining the strategies of both lenders and borrowers, he makes it clear that foreign loan negotiations are not only financial tools but also political instruments with broad economic and social consequences. The book analyzes in detail the four major debt crises that took place in Latin America during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Marichal's focus is comparative, since the contracting of foreign loans and their repayment were problems common to virtually all nations of the region. He devotes special attention to explaining the links of these debt crises to the international financial panics of 1825, 1873, 1890, and 1929. The epilogue compares the debt crises of the past with the contemporary Latin American debt crisis.

Author : Dietmar Rothermund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134815678

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The Global Impact of the Great Depression 1929-1939 by Dietmar Rothermund Pdf

This study broadens the conventional focus of the Great Depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. It covers the economic background and causes, from the international gold standard to agricultural over-production in the US. Other areas discussed include: the impact on the peasantry in developing countries; the political consequences, such as fascism in Europe; and the aftermath and the re-alignment of America, Europe and its colonies. Key areas, such as Keynesian theory, are explained in accessible terms.

Author : Mr.Luis Ignacio Jácome
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484303184

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Central Banking in Latin America by Mr.Luis Ignacio Jácome Pdf

This paper provides a brief historical journey of central banking in Latin America to shed light on the debate about monetary policy in the post-global financial crisis period. The paper distinguishes three periods in Latin America’s central bank history: the early years, when central banks endorsed the gold standard and coped with the collapse of this monetary system; a second period, in which central banks turned into development banks under the aegis of governments at the expense of increasing inflation; and the “golden years,” when central banks succeeded in preserving price stability in an environment of political independence. The paper concludes by cautioning against overburdening central banks in Latin America with multiple mandates as this could end up undermining their hard-won monetary policy credibility.

Author : V. Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521532744

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The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence by V. Bulmer-Thomas Pdf

A comprehensive balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic development in Latin America, first published in 2003.

Author : Stuart F. Voss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0842050256

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Latin America in the Middle Period, 1750-1929 by Stuart F. Voss Pdf

The customary division of Latin American history into colonial and modern periods has come into question recently. This new book demonstrates that there was a middle period in Latin America's historical evolution since the European Conquest-one no longer colonial, but not yet modern-which has left a legacy in its own right for contemporary Latin America. This volume is a narrative text on Latin America's "long nineteenth century," from the period of Imperial Reforms in the late eighteenth century up to the Great Depression. Incorporating local and regional studies from the last three decades which have profoundly broadened and altered customary views about Latin America, the book is a synthesis of this "Middle Period." Latin America in the Middle Period re-evaluates the relation between subsistence and market production in the post-independence economy, stressing regional diversity. It also re-evaluates the mechanics of politics, which customarily have been seen as liberal-conservative, caudillo-oligarchy, region-nation, and merchant-landowner-industrialist. The text discusses the acceleration of the forces of modernization, the rise of industrial capitalism, and the beginnings of a national ordering of life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which eroded the fabric of Middle Period society, a process consummated in the aftermath of world depression in the 1930s, ushering in modern Latin America. This new volume is an excellent resource for courses in nineteenth-century Latin American history and the second half of Latin American history survey.

Author : Rosemary Thorp
Publisher : IDB
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1886938350

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Progress, Poverty and Exclusion by Rosemary Thorp Pdf

A comprehensive Statistical Appendix provides regional and country-by-country data in such areas as GDP, manufacturing, sector productivity, prices, trade, income distribution and living standards."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Margarita Fajardo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674270022

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The World That Latin America Created by Margarita Fajardo Pdf

How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world. After the Second World War demolished the old order, a group of economists and policymakers from across Latin America imagined a new global economy and launched an intellectual movement that would eventually capture the world. They charged that the systems of trade and finance that bound the world’s nations together were frustrating the economic prospects of Latin America and other regions of the world. Through the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, or CEPAL, the Spanish and Portuguese acronym, cepalinos challenged the orthodoxies of development theory and policy. Simultaneously, they demanded more not less trade, more not less aid, and offered a development agenda to transform both the developed and the developing world. Eventually, cepalinos established their own form of hegemony, outpacing the United States and the International Monetary Fund as the agenda setters for a region traditionally held under the orbit of Washington and its institutions. By doing so, cepalinos reshaped both regional and international governance and set an intellectual agenda that still resonates today. Drawing on unexplored sources from the Americas and Europe, Margarita Fajardo retells the history of dependency theory, revealing the diversity of an often-oversimplified movement and the fraught relationship between cepalinos, their dependentista critics, and the regional and global Left. By examining the political ventures of dependentistas and cepalinos, The World That Latin America Created is a story of ideas that brought about real change.

Author : Leslie Bethell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic reference sources
ISBN : 0521245184

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The Cambridge History of Latin America by Leslie Bethell Pdf

This is an authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America, from the first contacts between native American peoples and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day.

Author : Carlos Marichal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608063835

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A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America by Carlos Marichal Pdf

Author : David Rock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520328099

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Latin America in the 1940s by David Rock Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Author : Rudiger Dornbusch,Sebastian Edwards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226158488

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The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America by Rudiger Dornbusch,Sebastian Edwards Pdf

Again and again, Latin America has seen the populist scenario played to an unfortunate end. Upon gaining power, populist governments attempt to revive the economy through massive spending. After an initial recovery, inflation reemerges and the government responds with wage an price controls. Shortages, overvaluation, burgeoning deficits, and capital flight soon precipitate economic crisis, with a subsequent collapse of the populist regime. The lessons of this experience are especially valuable for countries in Eastern Europe, as they face major political and economic decisions. Economists and political scientists from the United States and Latin America detail in this volume how and why such programs go wrong and what leads policymakers to repeatedly adopt these policies despite a history of failure. Authors examine this pattern in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru—and show how Colombia managed to avoid it. Despite differences in how each country implemented its policies, the macroeconomic consequences were remarkably similar. Scholars of Latin America will find this work a valuable resource, offering a distinctive macroeconomic perspective on the continuing controversy over the dynamics of populism.

Author : Michael A. Bernstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521379857

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The Great Depression by Michael A. Bernstein Pdf

This 1988 book focusses on why the American economy failed to recover from the downturn of 1929-33.

Author : Miguel A. Centeno,Agustin E. Ferraro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107311305

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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain by Miguel A. Centeno,Agustin E. Ferraro Pdf

The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.