Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy - The Industrialization of Argentina, 18901930

Zusatztext "Yovanna Pineda's work fills an important lacuna in the literature, the data set is unique and comprehensive, and the author's essentially cliometric approach is an excellent means to answer the important questions she poses. Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy will be a seminal work in Argentine economic history." —Noel Maurer, Harvard Business School Informationen zum Autor Yovanna Pineda is Associate Professor of Latin American history at St. Michael's College. Klappentext Yovanna Pineda is Associate Professor of Latin American history at St. Michael's College. Zusammenfassung Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy is pioneering microanalysis of 59 Argentinean corporations between 1890 and 1930 that explains Argentina's failure to develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar circumstances successfully modernized.

Product details

• Authors: Yovanna Pineda, Pineda Yovanna
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2009
• EAN: 9780804759830
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5983-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Social Science History; Social Science History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches