Roots of Underdevelopment

Felipe Valencia Caicedo

ISBN 10: 3031387252 / ISBN 13: 9783031387258

Published by Springer Dez 2024, 2024

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book brings together world-renowned experts and rising scholars to provide a collection of chapters examining the long-term impact of historical events on modern-day economic and political developments in Latin America. It uses a novel approach, stressing empirical contributions and state-of-the-art empirical methods for causal identification. Contributing authors apply these cutting-edge tools to their topics of expertise, giving readers a compendium of frontier research in the region. Important questions of colonialism, migration, elites, land tenure, corruption, and conflict are examined and discussed in an approachable style. The book features a conclusion from Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. This book is critical reader for scholars and students of economic history, political science, political economy, development studies, and Latin American, and Caribbean studies.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 620 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Roots of Underdevelopment
• Publisher: Springer Dez 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031387252
• ISBN 13: 9783031387258
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 34D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 34 millimeters depth
• Weight: 790 grams

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Synopsis

This book brings together world-renowned experts and rising scholars to provide a collection of chapters examining the long-term impact of historical events on modern-day economic and political developments in Latin America. It uses a novel approach, stressing empirical contributions and state-of-the-art empirical methods for causal identification. Contributing authors apply these cutting-edge tools to their topics of expertise, giving readers a compendium of frontier research in the region. Important questions of colonialism, migration, elites, land tenure, corruption, and conflict are examined and discussed in an approachable style. The book features a conclusion from Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. 

This book is critical reader for scholars and students of economic history, political science, political economy, development studies, and Latin American, and Caribbean studies.

About the Author

Felipe Valencia Caicedo is Assistant Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a Research Affiliate of CEPR. His primary research interests are in economic history, development economics, and economic growth, with an emphasis on Latin America.