Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America offers a new contribution to the literature on institutions and growth through the analysis of historical cases of institutional change and economic growth in Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Introduction -- A Market Approach -- Global Development and Climate Change: A Game Theory Approach -- On the Edge of Climate Change: In a Search of an Adequate Agent-Based Methodology to Model Environmental Dynamics -- Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Economic Growth: Empirical...

1. ‘Where the Sandalwood Is Born’: East Timor until the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 2. The Two Last Centuries of Portuguese Domination -- 3. The Indonesian Occupation -- 4. The Economy under Occupation -- 5. Launching a New State -- 6. Conclusions

1. Global Production Networks: Participation and Structural Break (Agus Miftahul Ilmi and Fithra Faisal Hastiadi) -- 2. Does Democracy Cause Regional Disintegration? The Effect of Democracy on ASEAN Intra-Regional and Extra-Regional Trade (Faris Maulana and Fithra Faisal Hastiadi) -- 3....

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The 1891-92 Crisis and Beyond -- Chapter 3: World War I and the 1920s Financial Crisis -- Chapter 4: The Estado Novo period: The 1930s and World War II -- Chapter 5: The Estado Novo period after World War II: The golden age of economic growth (1946-1973) --...

1. The Particular Colombian Case in Latin America: A Singular Path with the Same Results -- 2. The Price of the Regeneration, 1870-1914: How Colombia Missed the Belle Époque -- 3. The Take-Off, 1914-1929: Coffee, Railways and Regional Divergence -- 4. The Liberal Republic, 1930-1945: Overcoming...

1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of Dynamic Mechanism of Economic Growth in Large Developed Countries -- 3. Assessment of the Quality of Economic Growth in Brics Countries -- 4. Economic Growth and Transformation Path of the Brics Countries -- 5. Shared Growth of Foreign Trade of the Brics...