TY - BOOK ID - 66184464 TI - Time and space : Latin American regional development in historical perspective AU - Tirado, Daniel A. AU - Badia-Miro, Marc AU - Willebald, Henry PY - 2020 SN - 3030475530 3030475522 PB - Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Economic history. KW - Economic geography. KW - Latin America—Economic conditions. KW - Regional economics. KW - Spatial economics. KW - Economic growth. KW - Economic History. KW - Economic Geography. KW - Latin American and Caribbean Economics. KW - Regional/Spatial Science. KW - Economic Growth. KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - Spatial economics KW - Regional economics KW - Regional planning KW - Regionalism KW - Space in economics KW - Geography, Economic KW - World economics KW - Geography KW - Commercial geography KW - Economic conditions KW - History, Economic KW - Economic development KW - History. KW - Latin America KW - Economic conditions. KW - Economic development. KW - Latin American/Caribbean Economics. KW - Regional and Spatial Economics. KW - Desenvolupament econòmic KW - Ordenació del territori KW - Condicions econòmiques KW - Disparitats regionals KW - Amèrica Llatina UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66184464 AB - This edited collection examines the evolution of regional inequality in Latin America in the long run. The authors support the hypothesis that the current regional disparities are principally the result of a long and complex process in which historical, geographical, economic, institutional, and political factors have all worked together. Lessons from the past can aid current debates on regional inequalities, territorial cohesion, and public policies in developing and also developed countries. In contrast with European countries, Latin American economies largely specialized in commodity exports, showed high levels of urbanization and high transports costs (both domestic and international). This new research provides a new perspective on the economic history of Latin American regions and offers new insights on how such forces interact in peripheral countries. In that sense, natural resources, differences in climatic conditions, industrial backwardness and low population density areas leads us to a new set of questions and tentative answers. This book brings together a group of leading American and European economic historians in order to build a new set of data on historical regional GDPs for nine Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. This transnational perspective on Latin American economic development process is of interest to researchers, students and policy makers. ER -