Alan Dye
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Dye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dye |
| SIGNATURE | DYE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Institutions for the taking
We examine the formation of property rights in land during the early settlement by the Dutch of the Cape Colony at the southern tip of Africa. After its founding in 1652 as a provisioning outpost for ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the colonial government promoted settlement initially by granting land with well-specified and enforced property rights in restricted zones near Cape Town. By 1714 it transitioned to accommodate rapidly ex…
British Diplomacy and US Hegemony in Cuba, 1898-1964
Christopher Hull has discovered that, whereas Cuban diplomatic records remain closed to investigation and US records only occasionally mention British involvement, British governmental records offer an “uninterrupted and revealing” source of information about British diplomacy and policy toward Cuba, with many insights about the relationship between the United States and Cuba (p. 14). Working through the files of the Foreign Office as well as oth…
The Political Economy of Land Privatization in Argentina and Australia, 1810-1850
In early public land privatization, governments in New South Wales and Buenos Aires provided forde juretransfer of public lands. In New South Wales the government lost control; squatters rushed out unlawfully and seizedde factofrontier claims. But in Buenos Aires privatization was accomplished byde juretransfers. Why did British settlers rejectde juretransfers from a government, most able to secure property rights and rule of law, while settlers …
How brinkmanship saved Chadbourne
Cuba and origins of the US sugar quota
El factor institucional más importante en la historia de la industria del azúcar en Cuba después de 1930 fue la cuota de exportación que obtuvo en el mercado de los Estados Unidos en 1934. Este artículo revisa las tesis que consideran ese hecho como relativamente positivo y lo hace a la luz de los acontecimientos posteriores, que muestran que dicho sistema de cuotas perjudicó a la economía insular, sobre todo en la década de 1950, y examinando lo…
The U.S. Sugar Program and the Cuban Revolution
This article argues that one contributing factor to the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was the 1956 revision of U.S. sugar quotas. Its significance has been overlooked because its real economic impact was programmed to occur after 1959. Combining a statistical simulation and an event study of sugar companies' rates of return on equity, we show that the revision had adverse long-run consequences for sugar exports, and that forward-looking investors anti…
Progress, Poverty and Exclusion
Despite the great diversity of experience in the countries that together make up Latin America, there exists, among its students, a great desire to understand the region as a whole. This is especially true when it comes to questions of national and economic development and the social controversies of the twentieth century. Rosemary Thorp’s survey of the economic and social history of Latin America offers a welcome integration of the current state…
Avoiding Holdup
Asset specificity can have profound influences on the economic structure of a country. An example is post-colonial Cuba. This article demonstrates that the existence of site specificity in assets generated problems of holdup for sugar mill owners in their contractual relations with cane suppliers. Recognition of that incentive structure offers an institutional explanation for the post-1900 concentration of U.S. investment in the eastern provinces…
Cane Contracting and Renegotiation
Manuel Martín y Antonio Malpica
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Producción en masa del azúcar cubano, 1899–1929
Ciertos cambios tecnológicos dotaron a Cuba de una de las industrias azucareras más avanzadas del mundo en la primera mitad del presente siglo. En este trabajo mostramos cuantitativamente que las técnicas de producción en la fabricación de azúcar, como en muchas otras industrias de elaboración, experimentaron enormes incrementos en sus escalas óptimas debido a la adopción de tecnologías de proceso continuo y de producción en masa. En Estados Unid…
Tropical Technology and Mass Production
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Institutions for the taking
We examine the formation of property rights in land during the early settlement by the Dutch of the Cape Colony at the southern tip of Africa. After its founding in 1652 as a provisioning outpost for ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the colonial government promoted settlement initially by granting land with well-specified and enforced property rights in restricted zones near Cape Town. By 1714 it transitioned to accommodate rapidly ex…
Avoiding Holdup
Asset specificity can have profound influences on the economic structure of a country. An example is post-colonial Cuba. This article demonstrates that the existence of site specificity in assets generated problems of holdup for sugar mill owners in their contractual relations with cane suppliers. Recognition of that incentive structure offers an institutional explanation for the post-1900 concentration of U.S. investment in the eastern provinces…
The Political Economy of Land Privatization in Argentina and Australia, 1810-1850
In early public land privatization, governments in New South Wales and Buenos Aires provided forde juretransfer of public lands. In New South Wales the government lost control; squatters rushed out unlawfully and seizedde factofrontier claims. But in Buenos Aires privatization was accomplished byde juretransfers. Why did British settlers rejectde juretransfers from a government, most able to secure property rights and rule of law, while settlers …
How brinkmanship saved Chadbourne
The U.S. Sugar Program and the Cuban Revolution
This article argues that one contributing factor to the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was the 1956 revision of U.S. sugar quotas. Its significance has been overlooked because its real economic impact was programmed to occur after 1959. Combining a statistical simulation and an event study of sugar companies' rates of return on equity, we show that the revision had adverse long-run consequences for sugar exports, and that forward-looking investors anti…
Cane Contracting and Renegotiation
Cuba and origins of the US sugar quota
El factor institucional más importante en la historia de la industria del azúcar en Cuba después de 1930 fue la cuota de exportación que obtuvo en el mercado de los Estados Unidos en 1934. Este artículo revisa las tesis que consideran ese hecho como relativamente positivo y lo hace a la luz de los acontecimientos posteriores, que muestran que dicho sistema de cuotas perjudicó a la economía insular, sobre todo en la década de 1950, y examinando lo…
Manuel Martín y Antonio Malpica
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Producción en masa del azúcar cubano, 1899–1929
Ciertos cambios tecnológicos dotaron a Cuba de una de las industrias azucareras más avanzadas del mundo en la primera mitad del presente siglo. En este trabajo mostramos cuantitativamente que las técnicas de producción en la fabricación de azúcar, como en muchas otras industrias de elaboración, experimentaron enormes incrementos en sus escalas óptimas debido a la adopción de tecnologías de proceso continuo y de producción en masa. En Estados Unid…
Tropical Technology and Mass Production
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Avoiding Holdup
Asset specificity can have profound influences on the economic structure of a country. An example is post-colonial Cuba. This article demonstrates that the existence of site specificity in assets generated problems of holdup for sugar mill owners in their contractual relations with cane suppliers. Recognition of that incentive structure offers an institutional explanation for the post-1900 concentration of U.S. investment in the eastern provinces…
Cane Contracting and Renegotiation
Progress, Poverty and Exclusion
Despite the great diversity of experience in the countries that together make up Latin America, there exists, among its students, a great desire to understand the region as a whole. This is especially true when it comes to questions of national and economic development and the social controversies of the twentieth century. Rosemary Thorp’s survey of the economic and social history of Latin America offers a welcome integration of the current state…
The U.S. Sugar Program and the Cuban Revolution
This article argues that one contributing factor to the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was the 1956 revision of U.S. sugar quotas. Its significance has been overlooked because its real economic impact was programmed to occur after 1959. Combining a statistical simulation and an event study of sugar companies' rates of return on equity, we show that the revision had adverse long-run consequences for sugar exports, and that forward-looking investors anti…
Cuba and origins of the US sugar quota
El factor institucional más importante en la historia de la industria del azúcar en Cuba después de 1930 fue la cuota de exportación que obtuvo en el mercado de los Estados Unidos en 1934. Este artículo revisa las tesis que consideran ese hecho como relativamente positivo y lo hace a la luz de los acontecimientos posteriores, que muestran que dicho sistema de cuotas perjudicó a la economía insular, sobre todo en la década de 1950, y examinando lo…
How brinkmanship saved Chadbourne
The Political Economy of Land Privatization in Argentina and Australia, 1810-1850
In early public land privatization, governments in New South Wales and Buenos Aires provided forde juretransfer of public lands. In New South Wales the government lost control; squatters rushed out unlawfully and seizedde factofrontier claims. But in Buenos Aires privatization was accomplished byde juretransfers. Why did British settlers rejectde juretransfers from a government, most able to secure property rights and rule of law, while settlers …
British Diplomacy and US Hegemony in Cuba, 1898-1964
Christopher Hull has discovered that, whereas Cuban diplomatic records remain closed to investigation and US records only occasionally mention British involvement, British governmental records offer an “uninterrupted and revealing” source of information about British diplomacy and policy toward Cuba, with many insights about the relationship between the United States and Cuba (p. 14). Working through the files of the Foreign Office as well as oth…
Institutions for the taking
We examine the formation of property rights in land during the early settlement by the Dutch of the Cape Colony at the southern tip of Africa. After its founding in 1652 as a provisioning outpost for ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the colonial government promoted settlement initially by granting land with well-specified and enforced property rights in restricted zones near Cape Town. By 1714 it transitioned to accommodate rapidly ex…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Cuban History and Society (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Sugar (4 works) · Art (3 works)