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Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

Gallo, Andres A.; Alston, Lee J. - 2009

The future looked bright for Argentina in the early twentieth century. It had already achieved high levels of income per capita and was moving away from authoritarian government towards a more open democracy. Unfortunately, Argentina never finished the transition. The turning point occurred in...

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Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915

Alston, Lee J.; Mattiace, Shannan; Nonnenmacher, Tomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

While most contemporary historians agree that the use of debt peonage as a coercive labor contract in Mexico was not widespread, scholars still concur that it was important and pervasive in Yucatan state during the henequen boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The henequen boom...

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The political economy of productivity in Brazil

Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo; Melo, Marcus André; … - 2010

This paper explores the link between Brazil's political institutions and its disappointing productivity and growth in …

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Priests, Conflicts and Property Rights: the Impacts on Tenancy and Land Use in Brazil

Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - In: Man and the Economy 5 (2018) 1

Abstract Compared to the rest of the world, farmers in Brazil rely relatively little on tenant contracts. In … underutilized land negotiate land rental contracts with the landless.? In Brazil, this avenue for advancement has been hurt by a … reluctance of owners to rent in areas experiencing land conflict. The lack of rentals is an important issue because Brazil is …

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