Panamá is an exceptional case of state building under the control of an imperial power that occupied its most valuable territory and exercised the monopoly of force. The development of a tax capacity by liberal governments and maintained by nationalistic regimes was accompanied by popular...

Spanish Abstract: Panamá constituye un caso excepcional de construcción de Estado bajo el sometimiento a un imperio que ocupaba su territorio más preciado y ejercía el monopolio de la fuerza. El desarrollo de una capacidad tributaria durante los gobiernos liberales, y mantenida por los...

The aim of this paper is to show the relationship between the nominations for seats in the Cabildo of Buenos Aires between 1776 and 1810, and the network status of council individuals and families. We test hypothesis on the importance of networks metrics of elite individuals and families with...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de este artículo es describir y analizar la evolución del recaudo fiscal y gasto público del Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca entre 1856 y 1885. En este periodo, el recaudo fiscal se vio afectado por los conflictos políticos y la falta de mecanismos legislativos...

Spanish Abstract: Al usar el criterio de los bienes sociales primarios para evaluar el estilo de desarrollo colombiano se puede concluir que su tendencia es la de una senda rawlsiana inversa, cuyas principales características son: estrechez del mercado y sesgo anticampesino. Este artículo...

I examine 19th century Mexico for a better understanding of how and why it was so difficult to create the institutions of a modern state. I show that Mexico suffered from a vicious cycle in that period, something that is probably common to many developing countries, in that they needed a large...

I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina’s unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy is based on building a counterfactual scenario to examine the path of...

This paper examines sovereign lending to Latin America and the Caribbean from 1820 to 1913. We examine four waves of capital flows where defaults were followed by a return to market access. In spite of extended default, countries kept promising high returns that attracted international investors...

Este ensayo analiza la evolución del gasto público en América Latina a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas, y ofrece como referencia una perspectiva de más larga duración cuando la disponibilidad de estadísticas lo permite. Utiliza con tal propósito distintas fuentes de información,...

This paper analyses banking regulation in Uruguay during the period of state-led industrialization. We aim to fill a hole in the national economic historiography, which has paid scant attention to this topic, and to advance in consonance with recent developments in the Latin American...