This book is a political history of economic life. Through a
description of the convulsions of long-term change from colony to
republic in Buenos Aires, "Republic of Capital" explores Atlantic
world transformations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Tracing the transition from colonial Natural Law to instrumental
legal understandings of property, the book shows that the
developments of constitutionalism and property law were more than
coincidences: the polity shaped the rituals and practices
arbitrating economic justice, while the crisis of property animated
the support for a centralized and executive-dominated state. In
dialectical fashion, politics shaped private law while the effort
to formalize the domain of property directed the course of
political struggles.
In studying the legal and political foundations of Argentine
capitalism, the author shows how merchants and capitalists coped
with massive political upheaval and how political writers and
intellectuals sought to forge a model of liberal republicanism.
Among the topics examined are the transformation of commercial law,
the evolution of liberal political credos, and the saga of
political and constitutional turmoil after the collapse of Spanish
authority.
By the end of the nineteenth century, statemakers, capitalists, and
liberal intellectuals settled on a model of political economy that
aimed for open markets but closed the polity to widespread
participation. The author concludes by exploring the long-term
consequences of nineteenth-century statehood for the following
century's efforts to promote sustained economic growth and
democratize the political arena, and argues that many of
Argentina's recent problems can be traced back to the framework and
foundations of Argentine statehood in the nineteenth century.
General
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 1999 |
First published: |
1999 |
Authors: |
Jeremy Adelman
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth
|
Pages: |
392 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8047-3379-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8047-3379-1 |
Barcode: |
9780804733793 |
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