Sovereign Debt in Latin America, 1820-1913

GERARDO DELLA PAOLERA, ALAN M. TAYLOR

REVISTA DE HISTORIA ECONÓMICA/JOURNAL OF IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY 31.2 (2013): 173-217

This paper examines sovereign lending to Latin America and the Caribbean from 1820 to 1913. We examine four waves of capital flows where defaults were followed by a return to market access.

Filed under: Economía, Historia

Lay Patronage and the Development of Ecclesiastical Property in Spanish America: The Case of Buenos Aires, 1700–1900

ROBERTO DI STEFANO

HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 93.1 (2013): 67-98

Beginning with the dissolution of colonial Christendom, the development of church property has been closely tied to processes of secularization in Latin American countries. This process is to be understood not as the marginalization of religion but as the restructuring of religious matters in modern societies.

Filed under: Historia, Religión

Illegal Police Protection and the Market for Stolen Vehicles in Buenos Aires

MATIAS DEWEY

JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 44.4 (2012): 679-702

The author of this article has researched the robustness of police structures in so‐called “weak states”. These organizations make a chronic problem of the deficiencies relating to the exercise of monopoly of state violence.

Filed under: Ciencia Política, Economía

The Origin and Nature of the State in Francisco de Vitoria’s Moral Philosophy

LUIS VALENZUELA VERMEHREN

IDEAS Y VALORES VOL 62, NO 151 (2013): 81-103

Sixteenth-century Spanish thought is constitutive of an established, though insufficiently studied, tradition of European political theorizing. As against the politics of Machiavellism, the Spanish tradition argued in favor of an ethical perspective on statecraft.

Filed under: Filosofía