Iberia and Latin America

Iberia and Latin America
Author: Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1996
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780847682539

In this book, distinguished policy expert Howard J. Wiarda examines the rarely studied connection between Iberia and Latin America, arguing that there is a significant and complex relationship between their histories, cultures, and politics. In this companion volume to Democracy and Its Discontents, Wiarda focuses on the political, cultural, economic, and social foundations of Iberia and its transition to democracy.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 808
Release: 2007
Genre: Latin America
ISBN:

Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.

Scandinavia and South America—A Tale of Two Capitalisms

Scandinavia and South America—A Tale of Two Capitalisms
Author: Jorge Álvarez
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2022-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3031091981

This book takes a comparative approach to economic history to offer ways to increase our understanding of the divergence between South America and Scandinavia. In particular, the book aims to deepen our understanding of why the two groups of countries have set out on radically different pathways with regard to industrialisation, long-term economic growth and income distribution. The book draws together the results of two separate projects focusing on this comparison. The first of these projects focuses on two of the so-called settler societies of South America, namely Uruguay and Argentina, sometimes called the Pampas region. Australia and New Zealand, two other settler societies, are also considered, adding a further contrasting effect. These settler societies are compared with Scandinavia, in its broad terms, including Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. The second of these projects focuses on comparisons between Brazil and Sweden. Together, the two projects have engaged the minds of economic historians from Brazil, Uruguay and Sweden. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in economic history and economic development more broadly.

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics
Author: José Antonio Ocampo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 959
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019957104X

A comprehensive overview of the key factors affecting the development of Latin American economies that examines long-term growth performance, macroeconomic issues, Latin American economies in the global context, technological and agricultural policies, and the evolution of labour markets, the education sector, and social security programmes.

Scandinavian Exodus

Scandinavian Exodus
Author: Briant Lindsay Lowell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000238849

First published in 1987. During the last half of the nineteenth century, nearly two million Norwegians and Swedes migrated to the United States. Declining rates of emigration are moderately associated with the development of urban-industrialization in Scandinavia toward the end of the 19th century. Still, the major explanation of the decline of emigration is argued to be less a response to new urban opportunities than the end result of the transformation of rural, peasant classes and the decay of the diffusion process. In this volume economic change, agricultural development, and the course of the demographic transition are separately considered to isolate the causes underlying the emigration. The social historical context is examined with an eye toward casting the results of this study in a broader light. Those lessons learned in the study of Scandinavian experience are applicable to similar processes currently unfolding in contemporary developing countries.

Catalog

Catalog
Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection
Publisher:
Total Pages: 842
Release: 1969
Genre: Latin America
ISBN: