Àlvarez, Jeorge; Bilancini, Ennio; Simone D’Alessandro; … - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2010
In this paper we apply a model of early industrialization to the case of New Zealand and Uruguay in 1870-1940. We show … access to land, in Uruguay land was seized by a small group of large landowners. Our model shows that land concentration may … similar under many respects. While in New Zealand the active role of the Crown in regulating the land market facilitated …