Transport in Nineteenth-Century Brazil -- Railroad policy, finance, and expansion -- The direct gains from railroad freight services -- Railroad passenger benefits -- Railroads and Brazilian economic structure -- Dividing the surplus : subsidies, regulation, and profits

Argentine industrialization : an introduction -- Manufacturing productivity and concentration, 1895-1935 -- Argentina's investment in imported machinery, 1890-1930 -- Merchant finance groups in Argentine industrialization -- Manufacturing profits and strategies, 1904-1930 -- Political economy of...

Introduction -- Why a History of Ideas on Industry? 1. Post Bellum. The Beginnings of 'Industrialism' and the Revista de Economía Argentina (1914-1930) 2. Post Crisis: The Construction of a Consensus: State Intervention and Industrialization (1930-1940) 3. In bello. Wartime Alternatives...