Nils Jacobsen

Guiding the invisible hand : economic liberalism and the state in Latin American history

Structural Change and Conceptual Response in Latin America and Romania, 1860-1950 by Joseph L. Love The Emergence of Economic Liberalism in Colombia by Frank Safford Beleaguered Liberals: The Failed First Generation of Free Traders in Peru by Paul Gootenberg Argentina: Liberalism in a Country Born Liberal by Tulio Halperin Donghi The Economic Role of the State in Liberal Regimes: Brazil and Mexico Compared, 1888-1910 by Steven Topik Free Trade, Regional Elites, and the Internal Market in Southern Peru, 1895-1932 by Nils Jacobsen Economic Liberalism: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go by Florencia E. Mallon Bibliography Index

Imagining Development: Economic Ideas in Peru's "Fictitious Prosperity" of Guano, 1840-1880.

Retelling the saga of Perus nineteenth-century age of guano, Paul Gootenberg provides the first book in English to explore the historical genealogy of Latin Americas postcolonial economic thought. He scrutinizes the mentalities, ideas, and visions that led the country down an ill-fated path of export liberalism. The surprising diversity, vitality, and subtlety of Peruvian economic thinking challenges images of Latin American liberalism as a borrowed, impoverished, and narrow conception of material progress. By closely weaving together intellectual and social history and a multitude of forgotten texts, as well as trends in elite and popular and European and national cultures, Gootenberg offers a newly integrated approach to the long-neglected field of Latin American economic ideas.