Spanish Abstract: Hace 20 años Adolfo Meisel publicó un ensayo sobre las condiciones que propiciaron el atraso de la Costa Caribe frente a otras regiones del país. La política proteccionista fue contraproducente en aquellas que tenían alto potencial para exportar materias primas, pues...

This article analyzes the tax revenues of the Colombian central government and those of the federal states between 1850 and 1882. It aims to determine whether political decentralization of revenues and expenditures favored and improved the fiscal sustainability of Colombia during this period....

This article measures Nueva Granada's GDP before its Independence, analyzes its economic growth during 1785-1810 and considers some hypothesis about its continuity in the 19th century, with an ending reference point in 1905. These measures are used to make international comparisons with other...

The historians of the globalization process divide it in two great periods: 1860 to 1914, followed by the disintegration of trade, capital and labor flows, and from 1950 to the present. This essay attempts to understand the performance of the Colombian economy during the two globalizations. In...

Panamá is an exceptional case of state building under the control of an imperial power that occupied its most valuable territory and exercised the monopoly of force. The development of a tax capacity by liberal governments and maintained by nationalistic regimes was accompanied by popular...

Spanish Abstract: Panamá constituye un caso excepcional de construcción de Estado bajo el sometimiento a un imperio que ocupaba su territorio más preciado y ejercía el monopolio de la fuerza. El desarrollo de una capacidad tributaria durante los gobiernos liberales, y mantenida por los...