pt. 1. The southernmost territory of imperial Spain turns into the Argentine nation -- pt. 2. 1853-1913 : six decades of increasing integration into the global economy -- pt. 3. From the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second World War -- pt. 4. Four-and-a-half decades of...

This chapter presents a survey of the different methods used to reconstitute long-run income estimations for the Latin American regions. The main purpose is to alert on potential biases derived from them. Although the bottom-up approaches based on the direct estimation of aggregate production,...