Category: History - Modern (1750+)
The first thing that strikes the new arrival in the Argentine, and the last thing that he is likely to forget when he leaves the country, is the extraordinary inflation of prices. With the exception of meat, and perhaps bread, there is no article of common consumption which do...
Argentina is professedly a protectionist country. It is also professedly Republican, with a philosophic ideal of the greatest good of the greatest number. The two ideas, however...
7. CHAPTER VI.It is always difficult to entice commercial men into giving information of any value regarding their affairs. The seeker after more material and solid things than figures--after...
3. CHAPTER II.The prosperity of the Argentine Republic would undoubtedly have been impossible without the enormous investments made by British financial houses in its railway development. For...
6. CHAPTER V.It seems to be the ambition of every new country to secure immigration at all costs, regardless of the prospects that really exist there, and also of the true interests of the c...
2. CHAPTER I.The first thing that strikes the new arrival in the Argentine, and the last thing that he is likely to forget when he leaves the country, is the extraordinary inflation of price...
4. CHAPTER III.The labour question in the Argentine Republic is one of great difficulty. There is really no native labour, certainly none for industrial purposes. The Gaucho,[1] now degenerate...
5. CHAPTER IV.It is not the intention to deal in this work with the market fluctuations, the arrangements made between provincial banks and their creditors, nor with any of the financial aspe...
1. Chapter I. The Economic Basis of the Argentine 1