Patents and Technological Change in Late Industrialization : Nineteenth-Century Mexico in Comparative Context The research for this article has been partially supported by the National Science Foundation and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame. An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the 2002 International Economic History Association meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and benefited from comments there. A special thanks to the work and comments of Patricio Sáiz Gonzalez and Ian Inkster.

Narrowing the Focus

10.1093/oso/9780190694005.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Mason W. Moseley

Keyword(s):

National Science Foundation ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

Comparative Method ◽

Institutional Characteristics ◽

Federal System ◽

Citizen Engagement ◽

Provincial Level ◽

San Luis ◽

National Science ◽

Protest Activity

This chapter introduces a provincial-level adaptation of my theory of the protest state. In addition to its high levels of protest activity, Argentina is a federal system where incidences of protest participation have occurred at uneven rates, making it an excellent case for exploring variation in rates of contention across provincial contexts. Focusing on the provinces of Buenos Aires, Mendoza, and San Luis—where I draw on dozens of interviews with citizen activists, movement organizers, and politicians conducted in 2013 with support from the National Science Foundation—I utilize the comparative method to examine how distinct institutional characteristics of each province have interacted with citizen engagement to produce different outcomes in terms of protest.

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PRICES AND WAGES IN THE 1890 CRISIS IN BUENOS AIRES

Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0212610915000257 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 267-294

Author(s):

Agustina Vence Conti ◽

Eduardo Martín Cuesta

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Economic History ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

New Information ◽

Open Discussion ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

New Perspective ◽

The Impact

ABSTRACTThe growth of Argentina’s economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was so great that it was called “The Great Expansion”. This explains the interest of economic historians to observe, analyze and explain the conditions under which such growth occurred. One of the topics is the 1890 crisis, or “Baring Crisis”. This was seen by contemporaries as the worst economic debacle of the nineteenth century. Studies in economic history have seen this crisis both their macroeconomic aspects, and from the impact that would have occurred in the population. Also, in recent years there has been a renewed interest in the production and analysis of series of prices and wages, as key to analyzing economic indicators economy conditions and living conditions and inequality. Given this historiographical renewal, in this article a new series of prices and wages of Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century are presented. With this new information, and open discussion with previous works, a new perspective on the evolution of prices and wages is provided, with a different perspective on the impact of the 1890 crisis.

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