We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia … industrialization had overlooked. Rather than providing a single explanation of how specific shocks or policies shaped the … industrialization of the region, our argument is that the timing of the industrial take off was linked to initial conditions, while …

This work explores how Argentina overcame the Great Depression and asks whether active macroeconomic interventions made …-standard orthodoxy after the final suspension of convertibility in 1929. As elsewhere, fiscal policy in Argentina was conservative, and …

better economic environment. In this paper I review these sources through the recent experiences of Argentina, Chile and …

The growth in inventive activity during early American industrialization is explored by examining the careers of 160 …

peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th century, the high point of peripheral industrialization was the 1950 …-1973 period, which saw widespread import- substituting industrialization. This period was also the high point of unconditional …

industrialization. Even before widespread mechanization, American production was almost exclusively from centralized plants, whereas the …

during this stage of industrialization, and that much of its early productivity growth can be explained by changes in …