Spanish Abstract: El rol del sector agrícola durante la ISI y el debate respecto del salario agrícola y las condiciones de vida de los campesinos tienen una larga historiografía, sin em- bargo hasta la actualidad existe poca información empírica relativa a los ingresos del campesinado en el...

The state of anomie that has characterised and still characterises most Latin American countries, resulting from the fragmentation of the social fabric, has encouraged the rise of successful personalist leaderships in the '90s. This paper aims at investigating how neopopulism developed in Latin...

Do interest groups lobby their friends or foes? The literature is divided when it comes to the main target of interest groups’ tactics. This paper uses a unique case study of Brazil’s National Constituent Assembly (ANC) in 1988 to contribute to this contentious literature. Inside the...

Criticisms of privatization have centered around the possibility that the observed higher profitability of privatized companies comes at the expense of the rest of society. In this paper we focus on two of the most likely channels for social losses: (1) increased prices as firms capitalize on...

Este trabajo presenta evidencia del impacto financiero y administrativo de la reforma educativa de Santander en una universidad privada de comienzos del siglo XIX en Colombia. La reforma educativa emprendida por el gobierno colombiano durante las dácadas de 1820 y 1830fue un ambicioso proyecto...

Este trabajo describe la evolución reciente de los principales indicadores económicos para Chile y las reformas implementadas que largamente explican el desarrollo del país en las décadas recientes. Se muestra que Chile, de acuerdo a su crecimiento y situación social, puede clasificarse...

This work wants to describe the different positions that adopted revolutionary organizations linked to Peronism when faced with the implementation of the economic policies by the peronist governements from 1973-1976. the analysis is focused mainly on the visions by Montoneros/ FAR, by Fuerzas...

Rodolfo Walsh´s book "Operación Masacre" is an essential reading for understanding Argentina´s history in the years ranging from 1940 to 1980. This work analyses Walsh´s book as well as different prologues from different editions and Walsh´s 1977 letter to the military government that...

A recent body of literature has claimed that differences in long-run economic performance within the Americas stem from the different institutional structures established during colonial times. This research tries to find evidence of institutional persistence in Colombia using direct measures of...

Independence from Spain was a complex movement of civil confrontation and long and cruel wars of liberation. Human lives were lost, assets destroyed, capital fled, slavery abolished and public issues left to inexpert administrations, but at the same time there was an important reduction in the...