Product Description: Haiti is a country which, until the earthquake of 2010, remained largely outside the focus of world interest and outside the important international historical currents during its existence as a free nation. The nineteenth century was the decisive period in Haitian history, serving to shape the class structure, the political tradition and the economic system...read more

Haiti is a very poor country with a stagnant economy. This title, first published in 1983, considers the Haitian economy, placing it in its historical context, and explores the reasons why it has performed so badly. Mats Lundahl examines agriculture, which has failed to provide an adequate standard of living, analyses the structure of agricultural production, and explains why the land is so unproductive. Lundahl analyses why technology in agriculture is so underdeveloped and argues that no government since 1820 has been seriously interested in fostering economic development, since vested interest consistently intervenes to discourage new projects.

Product Description: Who are the greatest economic thinkers of Sweden? Seventeen essays on seven Swedish economists aim to answer this question, exploring the contributions of Knut Wicksell, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin, Torsten Gårdlund, Sven Rydenfelt, Staffan Burenstam Linder and Jaime Behar...read more

Product Description: Bebo Valdés nació el 9 de octubre de 1918 en Quivicán, una pequeña población al sur de la capital de Cuba. Estudió en el Conservatorio Municipal y dio sus primeros pasos como arreglista en la radio. La influencia del jazz, una corta pero trascendental estancia en Haití, la oferta de tocar en el mítico Tropicana con las estrellas de la época, el exilio obligado en 1960 tras la revolución cubana, el viaje a Suecia que marcaría su abandono del panorama musical, la grabación de Bebo Rides Again, el encuentro con Fernando Trueba y su éxito con Calle 54, los primeros Grammys, la colaboración con El Cigala en Lágrimas negras, su apoteósico éxito en España junto a su hijo Chucho y El Cigala, la imparable maquinaria de conciertos y giras, el regreso triunfal a Estocolmo, más giras, más discos platino, más Grammys han hecho de este hombre una leyenda...read more

Product Description: Knut Wicksell is arguably the greatest Swedish social scientist of all time, and poverty was a theme that occupied him all his life. Indeed, it was probably Wicksell's interest in poverty that was the critical factor in drawing him away from his purely mathematical background towards a greater understanding of the social sciences as a whole...read more

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First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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