Between the colonial heritage and the first globalization boom: On income inequality in the Southern Cone

Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 307-341

  Bértola, Luis ^a   Castelnovo, Cecilia ^a   Rodríguez, Javier ^a   Willebald, Henry ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

economic growth; first globalization boom; inequality; institutions; Latin America's Southern Cone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924999246     PISSN: 02126109     EISSN: 20413335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S021261091000011X     Document Type: Article

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