New Methodologies for a Latin American Economic History on the 19th Century: The South-Central Andes
Erick D. Langer
Abstract:The economic literature of nineteenth-century Latin America has been dominated by its focus on the import-export complex and by comparisons with the United States and Western Europe, discussing why Latin America did not develop like the former regions. The use of import-export data is deficient in un- derstanding economic development of the region; comparisons about what Latin America is not does not help understanding how development occurred. Instead, the essay develops new concepts such as the internal econ… Show more
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