Suchergebnisse

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

A new edition of a book first published in Bogotá, this English edition is a crucial addition to the literature on Latin American business history for a wider English-speaking audience, and it will be of interest to business and economic historians generally. Essays are included by leading economic historians of Latin America from the UK and from other countries. Each contributor has managed to relate the business history of a selected country to the main trends in its economic development