The impact of "early" nineteenth-century globalization on foreign trade in the Southern Cone: A study of British trade statistics

Manuel Llorca-Jaña ()

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: This paper deals with the impact of "early" nineteenth-century globalization (c.1815-1860) on foreign trade in the Southern Cone (SC). Most of the evidence is drawn from bilateral trades between Britain and the SC, at a time when Britain was the main commercial partner of the new republics. The main conclusion drawn is that early globalization had a positive impact on foreign trade in the SC, and this was due to: improvements in the SC's terms of trade during this period; the SC's per capita consumption of textiles (the main manufacture traded on world markets at that time) increased substantially during this period, at a time when clothing was one of the main items of SC household budgets; British merchants brought with them capital, shipping, insurance, and also facilitated the formation of vast global networks, which further promoted the SC's exports to a wider range of outlets.

Keywords: Lost decades; Anglo-Latin American trade; Early globalization. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N70 N76 O19 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05, Revised 2012-06
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