El origen colonial de las diferencias del desarrollo entre países: el neoinstitucionalismo e Hispanoamérica

Álvaro Albán Moreno ()
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Álvaro Albán Moreno: Universidad Libre

Revista de Economía Institucional, 2008, vol. 10, issue 19, pages 235-264

Abstract: This article presents and discusses the hypothesis and results of Acemoglu and his colleagues, regarding the colonial origin of development, and reviews the main historical facts of that period to show the scope and limitations of his theory regarding Spanish-America. When the correlation European settlements-initial institutions-present institutions-present performance is framed in the political, economic and cultural facts of the colonial context, it is shown that it is a simplistic, biased and ethnocentric view of development.

Keywords: neoinstitutionalism; colony; development; history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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