Exceptional Argentina Di Tella, Glaeser and Llach - Thomas Piketty

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Table 6 Average Import Tariffs 1870 - 1938 1870-1899 1900-1913 1919-1938 Argentina 26.1 23.4 18 Brazil 34.5 40 23.4 Chile 19.4 18.3 22.1 Colombia 33.5 47.4 29.3 Cuba 22.5 25.6 26.2 Mexico 16.6 21.9 21.2 Peru 32.4 23.2 16.3 Uruguay 29.7 33.3 19.6 China 3.2 3.3 11.3 Indonesia 4.9 5.2 10 Japan 6.2 7.7 5.9 Philippines 10.3 21.2 8.1 Siam/Thailand 3.6 7.4 15.1 Burma/Myanmar 4 11.3 22.5 Ceylon 6.2 7.3 13.3 Egypt 11 14.2 26.3 India 3.4 4.7 17.3 Turkey 7.4 9.5 30.7 Source: Clemens and Williamson (2002). 42
Table 7 Tariff Statistics for periods of 1966 to 2005 Sector 1966-1970 1971-1976 1977-1979 1980-1990 1991-2005 Mean Std. Dev. Mean Std. Dev. Mean Std. Dev. Mean Std. Dev. Mean Std. Dev. Footwear 151 69 158 2.152 69 21 38 6 15 4 Leather 139 89 130 3.623 58 28 28 3 11 3 Processed Food 127 67 121 3.201 35 23 25 4 10 3 Textiles 126 63 126 1.894 53 15 34 5 13 4 Stone 109 56 102 2.236 48 16 31 4 10 3 Wood 91 40 84 2.918 35 15 28 3 8 2 Machinery 89 32 73 2.411 43 20 20 4 11 2 Metals 87 41 76 2.517 42 11 28 3 10 2 Plastics 83 32 67 1.441 40 12 25 2 10 2 Agro 79 57 56 0.227 13 3 19 2 5 2 Transport 77 32 63 2.641 40 11 29 4 10 4 Chemical 76 37 61 1.759 30 11 22 2 8 2 Mineral 69 48 46 2.411 26 7 24 4 2 1 Source: Argentine trade policy data collected by the authors. See text. 43
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Exceptional Argentina Di Tella, Gla
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A third explanation of Argentina’
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Maddison's "Western Offshoots" by l
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A final point on this mechanistic a
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GDP in 1900 at 12,100 (in constant
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nationalized railways and banks, to
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country interacted with initial con
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1900. As there is an extremely stro
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Between the 1940s and 1970s income
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particularly in terms of food consu
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Even before the 2001 crisis, Argent
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Scandinavia and Northern Europe the
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Figure 4. A modified Human Developm
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Figure 6. Per capita GDP across Arg
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production 15 . Moreover, beyond st
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Figure 10. Average weight of export
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etween the prewar export-led growth
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which was wholly bound to local dem
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protectionism", certainly stronger
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agricultural pastures and cropland
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far. Argentina's differential popul
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Appendix Figure A. 1. Argentina's r
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Peru 35 38 25 34 34 34 32 29 26 27
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Like the Llach paper, the Campante
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I. Introduction Both Buenos Aires a
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across the ocean. Over the course o
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Buenos Aires’ hinterland rose dra
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significantly greater education lev
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Why is there such a difference in l
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illion dollars today). Each Chicago
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Chicago also appears to have been a
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casualties. Roca secured the presid
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capital to St. Petersburg he was pr
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and the logarithm of per capita GDP
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Moreover, years of schooling today
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y its overwhelming political import
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200 Figure 2a: Annual Wage Data 187
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Figure 3: Real Monthly Wages in Chi
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Log GDP per capita 2000 5 6 7 8 9 1
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Figure 7 Log GDP per capita 2000 7
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Table 2: Top 5 Industries in Chicag
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ρ 1/ 1 ρ ρ 1 ( ξ ξ ) 1 TT K ,
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Up to 2008, the FPV government had
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negative correlation between the pr
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policies would, supposedly, eviscer
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I. Introduction In a seminal study,
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terms, Peronist beliefs in the 1990
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Several authors have emphasized the
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foreign capital and trade as the gl
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of already available information. A
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having the need to do more than wak
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Argentines (who implement these pol
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opinion about elements of capitalis
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intense (the proportion is under 1.
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involved in social ordering that wi
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cost of the deviating firm, since w
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Admissible Region Bounds on w b Nex
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The previous proposition may be par
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and note that Peron insists on the
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Appendix 2: Definitions of Variable
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Table II: The Beliefs of Peronists
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Transition Remarks The previous cha
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CHAPTER SEVEN A Short Episodic Hist
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the income distribution between 193
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empirical evidence and on existing
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of commodities. The country was off
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accounts increased by 8% between 19
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Argentina in 1942 (4.1%) is not ver
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This change in inequality is also r
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1982, when Mexico’s default on it
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1995. While growth bounced back qui
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The main characteristics of this ep
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skilled workers that more than offs
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Household Expenditure Survey. An in
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The relationship between internatio
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machinery and equipment can acceler
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occurred not only in production tec
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a relative abundance of rents to sh
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even when the number of well-off in
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and similar patterns emerge when co
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This chapter described the level an
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Transition Remarks Economic success
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CHAPTER EIGHT Why do Argentines tru
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in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the
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Figure 5. Percentage of the populat
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analysis of the Argentinean and Chi
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observationally equivalent individu
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the low rank policeman. 13 4. The C
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Figure 7. Share of people having a
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6. Why did the Argentinean Police d
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instability, σ, a worried leader h
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the deeper question of why the Arge
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Table 2. Comparative facts for cano
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of formal education, whereas in the
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only bargaining tool to get money.
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Table 6. Tierra del Fuego Subinspec
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4. Police deaths during the 20th ce
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Of course, these conclusions depend
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“stop go” dynamics 4 ). In fact
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income distribution and earnings gr
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Figure 2. Basic Statistics Food Clo
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Table 2 Dep. Var.: Share of food Sm
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Figure 3. Variety in food retailing
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Table 3 Dep. Var.: Share of food at
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3.3 Income distribution effects The
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Figure 6. Individual Effects Using
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Expenditure Income 5000 6000 4000 4
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Figure 10. Income distribution Dens
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Appendix A: Estimation strategy Est
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w ijt where [ ln( 1+ ∏ ) − ln(
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2.2 Income distribution effects Fol
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Appendix B: The data To run our est
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Appendix C: Additional tables C1: B
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C3: Table 3 coefficients Dummy for
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CONCLUSION 20 th century Argentina
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can be harbingers of worse things t
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Ahumada, Hildegart, Alfredo Canaves
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Barro, Robert J. 2005. “Rare Even
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Burzaco, Eugenio et al. 2004. “Ma
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Cortés Conde, Roberto and María M
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Di Tella, Rafael, Juan Dubra and Ro
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Gaggero, Horacio and Alicia Garro.
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Gerchunoff, Pablo, Fernando Rocchi
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James, Daniel. 1988. “October 17
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Maddison, Angus. 2006. The World Ec
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Piketty, T. 2003. “Income Inequal
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Spiller, Pablo and Mariano Tommasi.
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Williamson, Jeffrey G. 1995. “The
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