Overview
- Analyzes Latin America, and specifically Chile, as a rapidly growing field of interest for business historians
- Brings some of Chile's best research to the attention of an international audience
- Examines Chile for its long history of government intervention in the economy, its move to deregulation, privatization and neoliberalism, and its multilatinas (multinational firms based in Latin America)
Part of the book series: Studies of the Americas (STAM)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Throughout the twentieth century, the Chilean business elite has played a central role in the country, not just as entrepreneurs but also as political and social actors. The chapters in this book, the first in English on the history of Chilean business, focus on the importance of diversified family business groups in twentieth-century Chile, their dynamics, organisation, and management, and their interaction with foreign investors and the state. Using a range of company and government archives, as well as other contemporary sources in Chile, Britain, and the United States, the individual authors pay particular attention to many key topics: the evolution of the Edwards family businesses, those of Pascual Baburizza, Chilean corporate networks, British firms in the nitrate industry, the Anglo South American Bank, the Copec group, Compañía Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego, the energy sector, SOFOFA (the industrialists’ association), and the recent growth of Chilean multinationals.
Reviews
“This work illustrates the historical nature of Chilean business from 1810 until the present day. It is a fine example of an approach that could be copied in other Latin American countries. Works like this tell us a great deal about the dynamism that Latin American actors possessed and the way they could promote positive economic changes. It is an excellent example of the new direction that Chilean economic history is taking. (Marcello Carmagnani, Historical Studies Center, Colegio de México, A.C., Mexico)
“All the case studies provide important new insights, whether through the original questions posed, the methodology they use, or the contribution they make to debates of national importance. As a result, they advance the idea that the history of business in Chile is not only a necessary line of research, but that it can shed considerable light on the reappraisal of issues which, until now, have often been seen though a lens rather too contaminated by ideological positioning.” (Mario Matús, Head of Department of History, Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rory M. Miller is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK.
Diego Barría is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Capitalists, Business and State-Building in Chile
Editors: Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Rory M. Miller, Diego Barría
Series Title: Studies of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14152-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14151-6Published: 04 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14152-3Published: 26 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 332
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American Politics, International Political Economy, Democracy, Entrepreneurship