Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy: The Industrialization of Argentina, 1890-1930

by Yovanna Pineda

Book Overview

In 1890, Argentina was a wealthy nation on the brink of industrialization. Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy examines Argentina's failure over the next forty years to develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar circumstances--Meiji Japan, Brazil, and Mexico--successfully modernized their economies. Yovanna Pineda conducts a pioneering microanalysis of 59 domestic corporations, spanning ten manufacturing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804759839
• ISBN13: 9780804759830
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"