Scandinavia and South America--A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Essays on Comparative Developments in Trade, Industrialisation and Inequality Since 1850

1. Introduction; Jorge Alvarez and Svante Prado -- Part 1. Latin America and Scandinavia -- 2. Latin American and Nordic countries: a renewed tradition of comparative studies; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin -- Part 2: Trade, industrialisation and growth -- 3. Foreign trade and economic growth in Scandinavia, Australasia and the Rio de la Plata region, 1870–1970; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin -- 4. Structural change, industrial growth and economic development in the Nordic and Southern Settler Societies, 1870–1970; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin -- 5. Long-term comparative levels of labour productivity in manufacturing, c. 1890–2010; Cecilia Lara and Svante Prado -- Part 3: Dimensions of inequality -- 6. Wage differentials, 1920–2010; Svante Prado, Thales Pereira and Jakob Molinder -- 7. Land-ownership systems and agrarian income distribution in Denmark, New Zealand and Uruguay during the First Globalisation Era; Jorge Álvarez and María de las Mercedes Menéndez -- 8. Democratisation and the rise of the welfare state; Erik Bengtsson and Marc Morgan -- 9. The role of education in modernisation drives in Brazil and in Sweden; Thomas Kang and Anders Nilsson.