Capitalists, Business and State-Building in Chile

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Llorca-Jaña, Manuel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Miller, Rory M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Barría, Diego (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Studies of the Americas
• Θέματα: Latin America-Politics and government.; Political economy.; Democracy.; Entrepreneurship.; Latin American Politics.; International Political Economy.

Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors. The chapters in this book, the first in English on the history of Chilean business, focus on the importance of diversified family...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Business History in Chile in the Twentieth Century
• 2. Entrepreneurial Families, Inheritances and Wealth Transfers: The Edwards Family and their Transition from Entrepreneurs to Rentiers, 1880-1914
• 3. Baburizza: A Business Group in Chile in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
• 4. Managed Decline, Headlong Retreat or Entrepreneurial Failure? British Nitrate Producers and the Withdrawal from Chile, 1920-1930
• 5. Riding on a Roller-Coaster: The Rise and Decline of the Anglo South American Bank
• 6. Economic Policy and Foreign Capital in the Creation and Rise of Copec
• 7. Chile´s Business Network in 1939: Between the Global Crisis and Adaptation to State-led Industrialization Policies
• 8. Electricity Generation and Electric Power in Chile before 1975
• 9. On the Origins of the '(Neo)liberal Project' in Chile: Entrepreneurs in the 1950s
• 10. Chilean Multinationals: Contexts, Paths, Strategies.