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37 produkter
Political Institutions and Financial Development
Av Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
413 kr
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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 securities markets—that is, countries in which credit cards, loans, mortgages, and the ability to issue stocks and bonds are …
Between Tyranny and Anarchy
A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006
Inbunden, 2009
1520 kr
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Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on …
Order Against Progress
Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913
Inbunden, 2003
930 kr
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How did foreign investment in infrastructure affect a relatively backward Latin American economy? The author engages this long-standing issue in Latin American history by applying the methods of the "new economic history" to the study of Brazilian railway development.Railroads have long been viewed …
Indians, Merchants, and Markets
A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821
Inbunden, 2000
930 kr
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Traditional historiography describes the repartimiento de mercancías as a forced system of production and consumption in which officials of the Spanish crown compelled Mexican Indians to produce goods marketable in the Spanish economy and to purchase expensive and undesired Spanish products. The …
Mexican Economy, 1870-1930
Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth
Av Jeffrey L. Bortz, Stephen Haber
Inbunden, 2002
1753 kr
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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 dictatorship (1876-1911), however, a series of institutional reforms reignited growth and created rents that enabled the …
Mexican Economy, 1870-1930
Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth
Av Jeffrey L. Bortz, Stephen Haber
Häftad, 2002
425 kr
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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 dictatorship (1876-1911), however, a series of institutional reforms reignited growth and created rents that enabled the …
Power and the Money
The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932
Av Noel Maurer
Inbunden, 2002
938 kr
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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 another period of turbulent instability (1910-29), during which the country underwent a revolution, a counter-revolution, a …
Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750-1850
Av Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein
Inbunden, 2003
1869 kr
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Today the Brazilian state of São Paulo is one of the world's most advanced agricultural, industrial, and urbanized regions. Its historical evolution, however, is poorly understood. Most scholarly attention has been paid to the period after 1850, when coffee rose to economic dominance, or to the …
James Madison
The Theory and Practice of Republican Government
Inbunden, 2003
1753 kr
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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. Not only did Madison establish the fundamental American concept of pluralism, his appreciation of the logic of …
Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 1
New Perspectives on the History of Congress
Av David W. Brady, Mathew D. McCubbins
Inbunden, 2002
2568 kr
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In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congressional organization. However, most of this research has focused on Congress in the twentieth century—especially the post-New Deal era—and the long history …
Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 1
New Perspectives on the History of Congress
Av David W. Brady, Mathew D. McCubbins
Häftad, 2002
613 kr
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In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congressional organization. However, most of this research has focused on Congress in the twentieth century—especially the post-New Deal era—and the long history …
Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750-1850
Av Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein
Häftad, 2003
677 kr
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Today the Brazilian state of São Paulo is one of the world's most advanced agricultural, industrial, and urbanized regions. Its historical evolution, however, is poorly understood. Most scholarly attention has been paid to the period after 1850, when coffee rose to economic dominance, or to the …
Political Economy of Protection
Theory and the Chilean Experience
Inbunden, 2005
822 kr
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The Political Economy of Protection explains why countries, especially developing countries, change their trade policies over the course of history. It does so through an interdisciplinary approach, which borrows analyses from both political science and economics. While the central focus of this …
Quest for "Just and Pure Law"
Rocky Mountain Workers and American Social Democracy, 1870–1924
Inbunden, 2009
1055 kr
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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 remarkable successes in securing progressive labor legislation. These successes—especially in improving workers' hours, …
Chimneys in the Desert
Industrialization in Argentina During the Export Boom Years, 1870-1930
Inbunden, 2005
997 kr
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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 primarily associated with cattle-ranching and agriculture, and single-mindedly characterized as a case of a …
Native Capital
Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920
Inbunden, 2005
938 kr
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This book studies the development of banks and stock and bond exchanges in São Paulo, Brazil, during an era of rapid economic diversification. It assesses the contribution of these financial institutions to that diversification, and argues that they played an important role in São Paulo's …
James Madison
The Theory and Practice of Republican Government
Häftad, 2005
425 kr
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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. Not only did Madison establish the fundamental American concept of pluralism, his appreciation of the logic of …
Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 2
Further New Perspectives on the History of Congress
Av David W. Brady, Mathew D. McCubbins
Inbunden, 2007
2041 kr
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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 events with changes in Congress, the authors examine the political economy of the history of Congress. They draw upon …
Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 2
Further New Perspectives on the History of Congress
Av David W. Brady, Mathew D. McCubbins
Häftad, 2007
497 kr
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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 events with changes in Congress, the authors examine the political economy of the history of Congress. They draw upon …
Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship
Networks and Private Protection During Mexico's Early Industrialization
Av Armando Razo
Inbunden, 2008
997 kr
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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 Mexico—contrary to the predictions of several dominant theories of economic growth—enjoyed a comparatively high rate …
Political Institutions and Financial Development
Av Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1702 kr
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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 securities markets—that is, countries in which credit cards, loans, mortgages, and the ability to issue stocks and bonds are …
Ancient Economy
Evidence and Models
Häftad, 2007
353 kr
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Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 BC and AD 500 were distinct from those of Egypt and the Near East. However, very different kinds of evidence survive from each of these areas, and specialists have, as a result, developed …
Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy
The Industrialization of Argentina, 1890–1930
Inbunden, 2009
880 kr
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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 develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar circumstances—Meiji Japan, Brazil, and …
Between Tyranny and Anarchy
A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006
Häftad, 2009
353 kr
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Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on …
Between Tyranny and Anarchy
A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006
E-bok, 2009
428 kr
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Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on …
Measuring Up
A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950
Inbunden, 2012
872 kr
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Measuring Up traces the high levels of poverty and inequality that Mexico faced in the mid-twentieth century. Using newly developed multidisciplinary techniques, the book provides a perspective on living standards in Mexico prior to the first measurement of income distribution in 1957. By offering …
Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 1
New Perspectives on the History of Congress
Av David W. Brady, Mathew D. McCubbins
E-bok, 2002
727 kr
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In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congressional organization. However, most of this research has focused on Congress in the twentieth century—especially the post-New Deal era—and the long history …
Measuring Up
A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950
E-bok, 2012
967 kr
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Measuring Up traces the high levels of poverty and inequality that Mexico faced in the mid-twentieth century. Using newly developed multidisciplinary techniques, the book provides a perspective on living standards in Mexico prior to the first measurement of income distribution in 1957. By offering …
Staying Afloat
Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820
Inbunden, 2013
987 kr
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Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means (that is, institutions) to reduce them. In the traditional historiography on Spanish colonial trade, the role of risk is largely ignored. Instead, the guild merchants are depicted as …
Staying Afloat
Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820
E-bok, 2013
1141 kr
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Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means (that is, institutions) to reduce them. In the traditional historiography on Spanish colonial trade, the role of risk is largely ignored. Instead, the guild merchants are depicted as …
