Institutions and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical and Contemporary Issues

October 14-15, 2016  |  28 Hillhouse Avenue, Tobin Lounge (Room B13)

Friday, October 14

Opening Remarks

Session 1: Imperialism in Latin America 

Chair: Timothy Guinnane 

Alan Dye
Columbia University

Imperialism and Entrepreneurship in Cuban Sugar, 1898-1929 [Paper]

Noel Maurer
George Washington University

Could Europe run Greece? Lessons from U.S. Fiscal Receiverships in Latin America, 1904-34 [Paper]

Session 2: Colonial Labor Institutions 

Chair: Bill English 

Leticia Arroyo Abad
Middlebury College

The Long Arm of History? The Impact of Colonial Labor Market Institutions on Colonial Development in Mexico and Peru [Paper]

Ed Rugemer
Yale University

Political Impact of Slave Resistance Over the Longue Durée: Jamaica in the 18th Century [Paper]

David Ryden
University of Houston

Winning and Preserving Freedom Through Manumission in Eighteenth Century Jamaica [Paper]

Saturday, October 15

Session 3: Institutions and Large-Scale Agriculture

Chair: Naomi Lamoreaux 

Craig Palsson
Yale University

Breaking from Colonial Institutions: Haiti’s Idle Land, 1928-1950 [Paper]

Ahmed Reid
City University of New York,
Bronx

Capital, Credit and the Development of the Sugar Plantation Complex in the British West Indies [Paper]

Session 4: Elites in Power and Institutional Change

Chair: Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez 

Jenny Guardado
Georgetown University

Office-Selling, Corruption, and Long-Term Development in Peru [Paper]

Bernardo Mueller
University of Brasília

Development as Search: Beliefs Across Brazilian History [Paper]

Session 5: State Capacity

Chair: Ana Maria Ibañez 

Luz Marina Arias
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

The Legacy of War Dynamics on Fiscal Capacity Building [Paper]

Bill Summerhill
University of California,
Los Angeles

When is Debt Odious? [Paper]