Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic WorldStanford University Press, 02.07.2002 - 392 Seiten This book is a political history of economic life. Through a description of the convulsions of long-term change from colony to republic in Buenos Aires, Republic of Capital explores Atlantic world transformations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Tracing the transition from colonial Natural Law to instrumental legal understandings of property, the book shows that the developments of constitutionalism and property law were more than coincidences: the polity shaped the rituals and practices arbitrating economic justice, while the crisis of property animated the support for a centralized and executive-dominated state. In dialectical fashion, politics shaped private law while the effort to formalize the domain of property directed the course of political struggles. In studying the legal and political foundations of Argentine capitalism, the author shows how merchants and capitalists coped with massive political upheaval and how political writers and intellectuals sought to forge a model of liberal republicanism. Among the topics examined are the transformation of commercial law, the evolution of liberal political credos, and the saga of political and constitutional turmoil after the collapse of Spanish authority. By the end of the nineteenth century, statemakers, capitalists, and liberal intellectuals settled on a model of political economy that aimed for open markets but closed the polity to widespread participation. The author concludes by exploring the long-term consequences of nineteenth-century statehood for the following century's efforts to promote sustained economic growth and democratize the political arena, and argues that many of Argentina's recent problems can be traced back to the framework and foundations of Argentine statehood in the nineteenth century. |
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... exchange relations within so- cial and political contexts . Law and Economics Much of my thinking about the relationship between public authority and private rights , and their mediation by the rule of law , has evolved in a dialogue ...
... Aires - accounting for over 80 percent of the port's exports.2 24 Comercio libre intended to do more than foster trade between colonial and metropolitan ports ; it also aimed to foment exchange 309 30 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION , 1780's - ...
... exchange among all ports of the realm - even between colonial nodes . To date , we lack data for trade among the colonies themselves , but given the profile of pam- pean production , it is likely that pastoral products such as hides and ...
... exchange between the country and city . 42 This network transcended the Littoral . The most powerful porteño merchants extended their network into the heart of the mining economy . Some Spanish merchants ventured from the peninsula to ...
... exchange was the weave of merchant power , kinship and marriage among scions was its woof . The patriarchs of merchant families kept a keen eye out for eligible nuptial partners for their children , rigorously screening circles of ...
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The Quest for Equipoise in the Shadow of Revolution | 49 |
From Revolution to Civil War | 74 |
Rosas Agonistes or the Political Economy of Cronyism | 109 |
The Duress of Merchant Law | 141 |
Reconsidering the Republic | 165 |
Constitutional Persuasions | 193 |
The New Property of Merchant Capital | 224 |
The Battle for Monetary Authority | 251 |
The Unfinished Revolution of the Republic of Capital | 279 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 331 |
Index | 365 |
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