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The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 1110-1140, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Whereas manufacturing seems to hold the key to modern economic growth, the role of manufacturing in economy‐wide convergence across countries is debatable. One strand of scholarship argues that productivity levels in manufacturing tend to remain stable across countries, and that economy‐wide convergence takes place through structural ...
Cecilia Lara, Svante Prado
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Reputational recovery under political instability: Public debt in Portugal, 1641–83
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 871-891, August 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the reputation recovery of Portugal's public debt during the war of liberation against the former Habsburg ruler. Using novel datasets on long‐ and short‐term debt and nominal interest rates, this study provides evidence that the sovereign borrower used debt credibility to build a pact of regime in a revolutionary context
Leonor Freire Costa +1 more
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Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 498-524, May 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the economics of innovation in livestock rearing during the first globalisation in Uruguay, the country with the most cattle per person in the world, both then and now. Using a new historical dataset of Uruguayan agriculture, the first one at a sub‐provincial level, I exploit regional differences in the adoption of cattle
Emiliano Travieso
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POTENTIAL HISTORY: READING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES*
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 3-29, March 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Until the beginning of the twentieth century, history, as a core concept of the political project of modernity, was highly concerned with the future. The many crimes, genocides, and wars perpetuated in the name of historical progress eventually caused unavoidable fractures in the way Western philosophies of history have understood change over ...
Rodrigo Bonaldo +1 more
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Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 87-117, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This work provides data on human capital for the Guarani Jesuit missions during the eighteenth century. Based on the age heaping methodology, the results of a large sample (over 3600 observations) suggest that the knowledge of numerical skills in these missions was exceptional.
Èric Gómez‐i‐Aznar
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 37-56, June 2022., 2022 Resumen La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis.
Morelia Morillo Ramos, Eva van Roekel
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Policy &Internet, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 13-27, March 2022., 2022 Abstract In recent years, various governments have been trying to subordinate the Internet to the system of the Westphalian state order. This article seeks to add a new layer to the analysis of this conflict over state sovereignty and the global digital order.
Julia Pohle, Daniel Voelsen
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Obesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021 Resumen La obesidad infantil es un problema grave en Latinoamérica y entre la población latina de EE. UU. Para ser eficaces, las políticas de salud pública tienen que estar guiadas por evidencias contextuales pertinentes, lo cual exige una capacidad de investigación sostenida a través del tiempo.
Deborah Salvo +13 more
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Obesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021 Resumen Aunque se han hecho avances en el desarrollo y aplicación a gran escala de intervenciones eficaces contra la obesidad infantil, los retos siguen siendo importantes. Nuestro objetivo era comprender las causas del éxito de Estados Unidos y los países latinoamericanos en la implementación de políticas y programas (PYP) contra la obesidad e ...
Rafael Pérez‐Escamilla +6 more
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O plano Doxiadis e a capitalidade da Guanabara
Acervo, 2023 O artigo analisa o plano Doxiadis, um plano diretor contratado por Carlos Lacerda em 1964 para a cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Sua contratação articulou, além das questões teóricas do planejamento urbano da época, o debate político centrado em Lacerda e a ...
Juliana Oakim Bandeira de Mello
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