Yovanna Pineda Industrial Development 1890-1930 sku-11031494

Yovanna Pineda's hardcover Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy (sku-11031494) is a Latin American History Books title in Social Science History. It examines Argentina's industrialization from 1890 to 1930. In 1890, Argentina was wealthy and nearing industrialization, but over the next forty years it failed to build an efficient manufacturing sector while Meiji Japan, Brazil, and Mexico modernized.

Pineda uses a microanalysis of 59 domestic corporations across ten manufacturing sectors. She argues that macroeconomic conditions pushed manufacturers toward survival at the expense of innovation and growth, and that risk-averse, monopolistic business practices hindered industrialization more than collective action or government policy.