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Growth against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico

William H. Beezley, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1983 - 
- Vol. 24, Iss: 1, pp 135
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This article is published in Technology and Culture.The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 121 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Economic impact analysis.

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The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929

TL;DR: In this paper, Mexico's turbulent politics, 1876-1929, were analyzed in terms of instability, credible commitments, and growth in the context of VPI coalitions in historical perspective.
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Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of climate and land use on historical surface fires in Pine-Oak Forests, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico and Northern Patagonia, Argentina are investigated.
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State building in Latin America

TL;DR: State Building in Latin America diverges from existing scholarship in developing explanations both for why state-building efforts in the region emerged and for their success or failure as mentioned in this paper, and the second plank of the book's argument centers on strategies of bureaucratic appointment to explain this variation.
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Real wages inequality and globalization in Latin America before 1940

TL;DR: The authors used a new data base on real wages and relative factor prices for seven Latin American and three Mediterranean regions, the latter being a source of so many of immigrants for the former.
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Structures, Endowments, and Institutions in the Economic History of Latin America

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the consequences of the paradigm shift in Latin American economic historiography from structuralism to the New Institutional Economics (NIE) and examined the latest long-range comparisons of productivity between the Latin American and U.S. economies, concluding that the relative economic stagnation of the past quarter century may not render structuralism entirely irrelevant.
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The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929

TL;DR: In this paper, Mexico's turbulent politics, 1876-1929, were analyzed in terms of instability, credible commitments, and growth in the context of VPI coalitions in historical perspective.
Book

Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of climate and land use on historical surface fires in Pine-Oak Forests, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico and Northern Patagonia, Argentina are investigated.
MonographDOI

State building in Latin America

TL;DR: State Building in Latin America diverges from existing scholarship in developing explanations both for why state-building efforts in the region emerged and for their success or failure as mentioned in this paper, and the second plank of the book's argument centers on strategies of bureaucratic appointment to explain this variation.
Journal ArticleDOI

Real wages inequality and globalization in Latin America before 1940

TL;DR: The authors used a new data base on real wages and relative factor prices for seven Latin American and three Mediterranean regions, the latter being a source of so many of immigrants for the former.
Journal ArticleDOI

Structures, Endowments, and Institutions in the Economic History of Latin America

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the consequences of the paradigm shift in Latin American economic historiography from structuralism to the New Institutional Economics (NIE) and examined the latest long-range comparisons of productivity between the Latin American and U.S. economies, concluding that the relative economic stagnation of the past quarter century may not render structuralism entirely irrelevant.