An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America

ARCELO DE PAIVA ABREU Professor of Economics, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro AFONSO S. BEVILAQUA Department of Economics, Catholic Universiy of Rio de Janeiro MARIA MERCEDES BOTERO Doctoral Student, University of London ROBERTO CORTES CONDE Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires MANUEL CONTRERAS Dean of the Graduate School, Universidad Catolica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia PAULO DRINOT Doctoral Candidate in Modern History, St Antony's College, University of Oxford ALAN KNIGHT Professor of the History of Latin America, University of Oxford and Fellow of St Antony's College GABRIEL PALMA Lecturer in Economics, University of Cambridge HECTOR PEREZ BRIGNOLI Professor of History, University of Costa Rica DEMOSTHENES PINHO Central Bank of Barzil ANTONIO SANTAMARIA GARCIA Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford 1997-98

This book explores the impact on Latin America of the extraordinary transformation of the international economy that took place in the half century or so that preceded the world depression of the 1930s.This book explores the impact on Latin America of the extraordinary transformation of the international economy that took place in the half century or so that preceded the world depression of the 1930s. The authors show how the response varied in terms of both growth and distribution, shaped by varying preconditions, and by natural resources and geography. The interplay of economic developments with political and social structures had profound and varied effects on policy-making and on institutions that were of great significance for later decades.