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The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Sustained long‐distance trade in the early modern era necessitated institutional mechanisms capable of solving three interrelated challenges: the need to mobilize an unprecedented volume of capital and to lock it in for long periods of time, ways of mitigating the principal–agent problem across continents, and methods to internalize and ...
Juan José Rivas Moreno
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Pensando la historia más allá de la nación: la historiografía de América Latina y la perspectiva transnacional [PDF]

, 2012
La fascinación por los métodos cuantitativos desatada en la disciplina histórica en los años setentas, acabó rápidamente. A pesar de esto, a veces no hay nada mejor que los números para ilustrar una tendencia –en este caso, una tendencia historiográfica-.
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Reseñas [PDF]

, 2010
Frida GORBACH ; Carlos LÓPEZ BELTRÁN, eds., Saberes locales : ensayos sobre historia de la ciencia en América ...
Luna Maldonado, Marco
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Mismanagement amid resource abundance: Sovereign risk, private sector credit rationing, and economic stagnation in Colombia, 1861‒98

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the relationship between national politics, sovereign default, credit rationing, and their effects on fiscal revenues and exports in nineteenth‐century Colombia. Using quantitative and qualitative analysis, it challenges existing narratives on Colombia's lack of sustained nineteenth‐century export‐led development, showing
Andrew Primmer
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Howard Zinn, in memorian

Testimonios, 2011
Entre el 27 y el 30 de enero, mi casilla de mail se llenó de mensajes enviados y reenviados: “Murió Howard Zinn” decían los encabezados. Conocí los textos de Zinn a mediados de la década de 1990, gracias a la Cátedra de Historia de los Estados Unidos de
Fabio Nigra
doaj  

El acta de independencia de Centro América [PDF]

, 1953
El documento histórico más importante en las fechas memorables de América Central, es sin duda alguna la célebre Acta expedida en el Palacio de los Capitanes Generales de Guatemala, con fecha 15 de septiembre de 1821.Este documento se conserva en los ...
Lardé y Larín, Jorge, 1920-2001
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Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Did democratization reduce the likelihood of politically connected bank bailouts in the past? What role did private central banks play as independent lenders of last resort? To answer these questions, this article provides new detailed archival evidence on the causes of bank failures in Spain in July 1931.
Enrique Jorge‐Sotelo
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Cómo quebrar a un sindicato

Testimonios, 2011
El trabajo analiza un conflicto laboral producido en 1992, con base en un juicio promovido por la empresa FEMESA contra delegados de La Fraternidad, a fin de excluirlos de la tutela sindical.
Fabio Nigra
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The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
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Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the distributive effects of personal income taxation in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. We estimate the evolution of marginal and average effective tax rates across the income distribution and calculate the corresponding indices of progressivity and ...
Sara Torregrosa‐Hetland, Oriol Sabaté
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