The First Export Era Revisited: Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3319872958 ISBN 13: 9783319872957

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

Uses a uniform set of parameters in order to assess the economic contribution of exports to Latin American economies during the period in which they followed an export-led pattern of growth
Presents new evidence that allows testing of the claims that conventional wisdom has made about Latin America during the export era
Provide tools to inductively build a new interpretive synthesis for Latin America

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About the Author

Sandra Kuntz-Ficker is Professor of Economic History at El Colegio de México, Mexico. She has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford, USA. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Science (AMC) and  the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association (IEHA). She specializes in the economic history of Mexico and Latin America from the nineteenth- through to the mid-twentieth century.

From the Back Cover

This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth upon Latin America during the first export era. The contributors to this volume contest conventional approaches, stemming from structuralism and dependency theory, which portray a rather negative view of the impact of nineteenth-century globalization upon Latin America. It has been considered that, as a result of the role of Latin American countries as providers of raw materials produced in enclaves dominated by foreign capital, their participation in the world economy has had adverse consequences for their long-term development. This volume addresses a representative sample of countries with varied initial conditions and resource endowments, a diverse productive specialization, as well as different degrees of integration to the world economy. This allows a direct comparison among the different experiences within the region, which in turn enables a more nuanced understanding of the contribution of exports to economic growth and economic modernization. Eight national case studies are presented – Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Bolivia and Uruguay – which offer an insight into the successes of a region traditionally viewed as disadvantaged by globalization and export-led growth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319872958
• ISBN 13: 9783319872957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Kuntz-Ficker Sandra