American merchants in nineteenth-century South America acted as universal mediators in the world of commodities. Their specific function provided the navigational, commercial, and financial links that connected South ...

The recognition of Argentine independence was granted by the British government in early 1825. The Liverpool Ministry, which was in power in Britain at that time, was thus responsible for becoming the first European nation ...

In an article first published in 1977, Stanley Hoffmann callad international relations a "(North)American social science". His diagnosis regarding the national origina of the discipline as a field of social-scientific ...

La Iglesia Católica interpretó el largo proceso de secularización de la sociedad occidental, que aportó además del racionalismo una mayor autonomía en las esferas de la vida, como extirpación de lo sacro de la vida del ...

This work explores how Argentina overcame the Great Depression and asks whether active macroeconomic interventions made any contribution to the recovery. In particular, we study Argentine macroeconomic policy as it deviated ...

This is a preliminary survey paper which cou1d be the basis for a Project on the Monetary History of Argentina. The authors wou1d appreciate comments. The authors express their appreciation for the financia1 support ...

Este trabajo tiene por objeto determinar los principales factores económicos y sociales asociados con la pobreza. La identificación de las variables asociadas a la pobreza se hizo mediante tres enfoques alternativos y no ...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate whether permanent, discrete breaks in U.S. savings have occurred. Breaks are hypothesized to occur in both a constant (intercept) and a time-trend term. To test for these ...

Este trabajo mide la intensidad de la pobreza en el Gran Buenos Aires entre 1989 y 1994 con un índice de pobreza consistente con el enfoque axiomático utilizado en la literatura económica sobre pobreza y distribución ...

The economic conditions of the poor segments of a population can be improved through government transfers or through increases in the market income of the individuals in the relevant groups. Both effects may interact. ...