The Economies of Latin America: New Cliometric Data(Perspectives in Economic and Social History)

Series: Perspectives in Economic and Social History

The economic backwardness of Latin America and the Caribbean has long been discussed, but seldom been the subject of such a wide-ranging quantitative study. The twelve essays in this collection present a twenty-first-century analysis of a long-term issue, providing extensive geographical coverage and allowing reinterpretations of the past.