This account of the interplay of politics and economics in Chile in three successive administrations ending with the 1973 coup suggests that social class plays a major role in determining the outcome of economic policies in Latin America. As the author demonstrates, the nature of the class...

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- I. THE PROVISION OF RESIDENTIAL WATER SUPPLIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- CHAPTER II. A GEOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO THE DELIMITATION OF PATTERNS OF WATER CONSUMPTION -- CHAPTER III. PATTERNS OF WATER USE AND...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Charts -- Organization Charts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Heritage -- 3 Impact of the Second World War -- 4 Post-war prosperity -- 5 Harry Ferguson's system -- 6 Ferguson System in mass production -- 7 The merger -- 8 McKay of Australia -- 9 Aftermath...

The rise of Japan from agrarianism to a position as one of the leading industrial powers is one of the most dramatic and meaningful phenomena in economic history. Professor Lockwood, assistant director of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University,...

Biographical note: GalbraithJohn Kenneth: John Kenneth Galbraith was Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Harvard University. James Goodman is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- One. Public Finance and Economic Development -- 1. Public Finance and Development in Colombia -- 2. The Developmental Task of Tax Policy -- Two. Tax Structure Reform -- 3. Growth, Equity, and the Income Tax -- 4. Taxation and the Allocation of...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Staple Theory of Export-led Growth -- 3. Barriers to Export-led Growth -- 4. Export-led Growth in Peru -- 5. The Fishmeal Industry in Peru -- 6. The Production Function for Fishmeal -- 7. Backward Linkages -- 8....

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Comparative Economic History -- 2. Group Behavior and International Trade -- 3. The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe, 1820 to 1875 -- 4. The Formation of Financial Centers -- 5. Commercial Expansion and the Industrial Revolution -- 6. European Port...