Abstract
This essay reviews the following works: The Economics of Contemporary Latin America. By Beatriz Armendariz and Felipe Larrain B. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. Pp. xix + 439. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780262533157. Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico. By Edward Beatty. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. Pp. x + 342. $34.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520284890. Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History. By Gregory T. Cushman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xxii + 393. $84.29 hardcover. ISBN: 9781107004139. Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization. By Cristopher R. W. Dietrich. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xviii + 352. $34.72 paperback. ISBN: 9781316617892. Historia minima de la expansion ferroviaria en America Latina. Edited by Sandra Kuntz-Ficker. Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico, 2015. Pp. 361. ISBN: 9786074628449. The First Export Era Revisited: Reassessing Its Contribution to Latin American Economies. Edited by Sandra Kuntz-Ficker. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xxii + 348. $109.67 hardcover. ISBN: 9783319623399. The Global Political Economy of Raul Prebisch. Edited by Matias E. Margulis. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xv + 217. $103.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781138219779. The World Economy through the Lens of the United Nations. Edited by Jose Antonio Ocampo, Anis Chowdhury, and Diana Alarcon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxv + 296. $90.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780198817345. Palma Africana. By Michael Taussig. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 258. $25.00. ISBN: 9780226516134. Un siglo de economia en Bolivia (1900–2015). Topicos de historia economica (tomo 1) y Working Papers (tomo 2). Edited by Ivan Velazquez-Castellanos and Mario Pacheco Torrico. La Paz: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2017. Vol. 1, pp. 643. ISBN: 9789995418526. Vol. 2, pp. 508. ISBN: 9789995418533. (Both volumes are available by download from the Periodico Digital de Investigacion sobre Bolivia, https://www.pieb.com.bo/sipieb_nota.php?idn=11054 ).
Highlights
The books of Edward Beatty (Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico) and Sandra Kuntz-Ficker (Historia mínima de la expansión ferroviaria en América Latina) explore technological transfer during export-led growth using the typical approach of economic history
Other issues under consideration are forward and backward linkages related to the railroads, applying the ideas developed by Albert Hirschman.[22]
The vision that comes from this book avoids any simplification but does not hide the fact that, in the end, the economic impact of railroads seems to be limited, if we put the Latin American case in parallel with countries experiencing strong processes of industrialization
Summary
Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico. By Edward Beatty.
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