Stephen Haber
Biographic Data
| ID | 531977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Haber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Haber |
| SIGNATURE | HABER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 278 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Fragile by design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
Preface ix SECTION ONE No Banks without States, and No States without Banks 1 If Stable and Effi cient Banks Are Such a Good Idea, Why Are They So Rare? 3 2 The Game of Bank Bargains 27 3 Tools of Conquest and Survival: Why States Need Banks 60 4 Privileges with Burdens: War, Empire, and the Monopoly Structure of English Banking 84 5 Banks and Democracy: Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 105 SECTION TWO The Cost of Banker-Populist…
Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse
A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between natural resources and democracy. Extant cross-country regressions, however, assume random effects and are run on panel datasets with relatively short time dimensions. Because natural resource reliance is not an exogenous variable, this is not an effective strategy for uncovering causal relationships. Numerous sources of bias may be driving the results, the most serious of which is …
Authoritarian Government
This article discusses authoritarian government, and argues that the literature on authoritarianism can be integrated into a unified framework that explains variance in economic performance across dictatorships. It discusses the organizational theory of dictatorship and addresses the question why there are few stationary bandits. The logic of terror, which is the most direct strategy to curb the launching organization, is introduced in one sectio…
Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico
Related lending, a widespread practice in LDCs, is widely held to encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On the contrary, related lending often exists as a response to high information and contract-enforcement costs. Whether it encourages looting depends on other institutions, particularly those …
The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876–1929
This book, first published in 2003, addresses a puzzle in political economy: why is it that political instability does not necessarily translate into economic stagnation or collapse? In order to address this puzzle, it advances a theory about property rights systems in many less developed countries. In this theory, governments do not have to enforce property rights as a public good. Instead, they may enforce property rights selectively (as a priv…
When the Law Does Not Matter: The Rise and Decline of the Mexican Oil Industry
Changes in formal institutions do not always affect economic outcomes. When an industry has specific technological features that limit a government's ability to expropriate it, or when the industry is able to call on foreign governments to enforce its de facto property rights, economic agents can easily mitigate changes in formal institutions designed to reduce these property rights. We explore the Mexican oil industry from 1911 to 1929 and demon…
Anything Goes: Mexico's "New" Cultural History
Political Instability And Economic Performance: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico
What is the relationship between political instability and economic growth? This article examines this question using insights from the new institutional economics applied to a canonical case: revolutionary Mexico. The authors argue that investment and growth during and after the revolution were less affected by political instability than one might predict based on the extant theoretical and empirical literature. They find that while investor exp…
The Rate of Growth of Productivity in Mexico, 1850-1933: Evidence from the Cotton Textile Industry
This article employs previously unused data sources and techniques in order to estimate labour productivity and total factor productivity in the Mexican cotton textile industry over the period 1850-1933. Our findings indicate: (1) substantial productivity growth prior to the Porfiriato; (2) rapid productivity growth throughout the Porfiriato; (3) a swift, though incomplete, recovery from the Revolution during the 1920s; and, (4) an insignificant …
How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914
Contents 1. HABER STEPHEN 2. LEFF NATHANIEL H. 3. CARDENAS ENRIQUE 4. SUMMERHILL WILLIAM 5. MARICHAL CARLOS 6. HABER STEPHEN 7. CHOWNING MARGARET 8. SALVUCCI RICHARD J. 9. HABER STEPHEN KLEIN HERBERT S. 10. ENGERMAN STANLEY L. SOKOLOFF KENNETH L
How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico
The Worst of Both Worlds: The New Cultural History of Mexico
Book Review| July 01 1997 The Worst of Both Worlds: The New Cultural History of Mexico Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern MexicoGilbert M. JosephDaniel NugentPeasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and PeruFlorencia E. MallonThe Postmodernism Debate in Latin AmericaJohn BeverlyMichael AronnaJosé OviedoWomen of the Mexican Countryside, 1850-1990Heather Fowler-SalaminiMary Kay Vaughan S…
Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations
July 01 1997 Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations Stephen H. Haber, Stephen H. Haber Stephen H. Haber is Professor of History and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at Stanford University. He is working on a book about the regulation of capital markets and industrial development in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States during the early stages of economic growth. Search for other works by this author on: This…
Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations
July 01 1997 Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations Stephen H. Haber, Stephen H. Haber Stephen H. Haber is Professor of History and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at Stanford University. He is working on a book about the regulation of capital markets and industrial development in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States during the early stages of economic growth. Search for other works by this author on: This…
Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940
Concentracion industrial, desarrollo del mercado de capitales y redes financieras basadas en el parentesco: Un estudio comparado de Brasil, Mexico y los Estados Unidos, 1840–1930 (2. a parte)
Este artículo aborda la relación entre el desarrollo del mercado de capital y la estructura industrial durante las primeras etapas de la industrialización a partir de las experiencias de Brasil, México y los Estados Unidos. En él se arguye que las dos restricciones básicas a la formación de intermediaries crediticios en América Latina, una mala definición de derechos de propiedad y la intervención estatal, produjeron una concentración más alta en…
Concentración industrial, desarrollo del mercado de capitales y redes financieras basadas en el parentesco: Un estudio comparado de Brasil, Mexico y los Estados Unidos, 1840–1930 (1. a parte)
Este artículo aborda la relación entre el desarrollo del mercado de capital y la estructura industrial durante las primeras etapas de la industrialización a partir de las experiencias de Brasil, México y los Estados Unidos. En él se arguye que las dos restricciones básicas a la formación de intermediarios crediticios en América Latina, una mala definición de derechos de propiedad y la intervención estatal, produjeron una concentración más alta en…
Business Enterprise and the Great Depression in Brazil: A Study of Profits and Losses in Textile Manufacturing
This article employs previously unused accounting data and manuscript censuses to determine the impact of the Great Depression on Brazil's most important cotton textile manufacturers. It argues that the Great Depression, when viewed at the level of the individual business enterprise, had far more serious consequences than the previous literature, which relied on aggregate statistical data, suggests. The analysis presented here leads to the conclu…
Assessing the Obstacles to Industrialisation: The Mexican Economy, 1830-1940
After England began what came to be known as the First Industrial Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, industrial technology quickly diffused throughout the nations of the North Atlantic. Within fifty years of the first rumblings of British industrialisation, the factory system had spread to Western Europe and the United States. Latin America, however, lagged behind. It was not until the twentieth century that manufacturing came to le…
British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960
La economia mexicana, 1830–1940: Obstaculos a la industrializacion (II)
A partir de la década de 1880, los obstáculos que habían limitado anteriormente la industrialización mexicana empezaron a desaparecer. La chispa que inició este proceso fue el flujo de capital procedente de Estados Unidos y Europa. En las últimas décadas del siglo XIX penetraron en México capitales y empresarios extranjeros (que conocían tecnologías y mercados concretos de los que no tenían conocimiento los capitalistas mexicanos) que desaguaron …
La economia mexicana, 1830–1940: Obstaculos a la industrializacion (I)
Después de que Inglaterra comenzara a finales del siglo xviii lo que llegó a ser conocido como la Primera Revolución Industrial, la tecnología industrial se difundió rápidamente por las naciones del Atlántico Norte. A los cincuenta años de haberse iniciado la industrialización en Gran Bretaña, el sistema fabril se había extendido por Europa Occidental y Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, Latinoamérica se quedó atrás. No fue hasta el siglo xx cuando la …
Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940
Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940
External Constraints on Economic Policy in Brazil, 1889-1930
Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse
A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between natural resources and democracy. Extant cross-country regressions, however, assume random effects and are run on panel datasets with relatively short time dimensions. Because natural resource reliance is not an exogenous variable, this is not an effective strategy for uncovering causal relationships. Numerous sources of bias may be driving the results, the most serious of which is …
Fragile by design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
Preface ix SECTION ONE No Banks without States, and No States without Banks 1 If Stable and Effi cient Banks Are Such a Good Idea, Why Are They So Rare? 3 2 The Game of Bank Bargains 27 3 Tools of Conquest and Survival: Why States Need Banks 60 4 Privileges with Burdens: War, Empire, and the Monopoly Structure of English Banking 84 5 Banks and Democracy: Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 105 SECTION TWO The Cost of Banker-Populist…
When the Law Does Not Matter: The Rise and Decline of the Mexican Oil Industry
Changes in formal institutions do not always affect economic outcomes. When an industry has specific technological features that limit a government's ability to expropriate it, or when the industry is able to call on foreign governments to enforce its de facto property rights, economic agents can easily mitigate changes in formal institutions designed to reduce these property rights. We explore the Mexican oil industry from 1911 to 1929 and demon…
Political Instability And Economic Performance: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico
What is the relationship between political instability and economic growth? This article examines this question using insights from the new institutional economics applied to a canonical case: revolutionary Mexico. The authors argue that investment and growth during and after the revolution were less affected by political instability than one might predict based on the extant theoretical and empirical literature. They find that while investor exp…
Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico
Related lending, a widespread practice in LDCs, is widely held to encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On the contrary, related lending often exists as a response to high information and contract-enforcement costs. Whether it encourages looting depends on other institutions, particularly those …
Anything Goes: Mexico's "New" Cultural History
The Worst of Both Worlds: The New Cultural History of Mexico
Book Review| July 01 1997 The Worst of Both Worlds: The New Cultural History of Mexico Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern MexicoGilbert M. JosephDaniel NugentPeasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and PeruFlorencia E. MallonThe Postmodernism Debate in Latin AmericaJohn BeverlyMichael AronnaJosé OviedoWomen of the Mexican Countryside, 1850-1990Heather Fowler-SalaminiMary Kay Vaughan S…
Business Enterprise and the Great Depression in Brazil: A Study of Profits and Losses in Textile Manufacturing
This article employs previously unused accounting data and manuscript censuses to determine the impact of the Great Depression on Brazil's most important cotton textile manufacturers. It argues that the Great Depression, when viewed at the level of the individual business enterprise, had far more serious consequences than the previous literature, which relied on aggregate statistical data, suggests. The analysis presented here leads to the conclu…
Assessing the Obstacles to Industrialisation: The Mexican Economy, 1830-1940
After England began what came to be known as the First Industrial Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, industrial technology quickly diffused throughout the nations of the North Atlantic. Within fifty years of the first rumblings of British industrialisation, the factory system had spread to Western Europe and the United States. Latin America, however, lagged behind. It was not until the twentieth century that manufacturing came to le…
La economia mexicana, 1830–1940: Obstaculos a la industrializacion (I)
Después de que Inglaterra comenzara a finales del siglo xviii lo que llegó a ser conocido como la Primera Revolución Industrial, la tecnología industrial se difundió rápidamente por las naciones del Atlántico Norte. A los cincuenta años de haberse iniciado la industrialización en Gran Bretaña, el sistema fabril se había extendido por Europa Occidental y Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, Latinoamérica se quedó atrás. No fue hasta el siglo xx cuando la …
The Rate of Growth of Productivity in Mexico, 1850-1933: Evidence from the Cotton Textile Industry
This article employs previously unused data sources and techniques in order to estimate labour productivity and total factor productivity in the Mexican cotton textile industry over the period 1850-1933. Our findings indicate: (1) substantial productivity growth prior to the Porfiriato; (2) rapid productivity growth throughout the Porfiriato; (3) a swift, though incomplete, recovery from the Revolution during the 1920s; and, (4) an insignificant …
British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960
Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940
Concentración industrial, desarrollo del mercado de capitales y redes financieras basadas en el parentesco: Un estudio comparado de Brasil, Mexico y los Estados Unidos, 1840–1930 (1. a parte)
Este artículo aborda la relación entre el desarrollo del mercado de capital y la estructura industrial durante las primeras etapas de la industrialización a partir de las experiencias de Brasil, México y los Estados Unidos. En él se arguye que las dos restricciones básicas a la formación de intermediarios crediticios en América Latina, una mala definición de derechos de propiedad y la intervención estatal, produjeron una concentración más alta en…
La economia mexicana, 1830–1940: Obstaculos a la industrializacion (II)
A partir de la década de 1880, los obstáculos que habían limitado anteriormente la industrialización mexicana empezaron a desaparecer. La chispa que inició este proceso fue el flujo de capital procedente de Estados Unidos y Europa. En las últimas décadas del siglo XIX penetraron en México capitales y empresarios extranjeros (que conocían tecnologías y mercados concretos de los que no tenían conocimiento los capitalistas mexicanos) que desaguaron …
The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940: The Structure and Growth of Manufacturing in an Underdeveloped Economy
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External Constraints on Economic Policy in Brazil, 1889-1930
Guiding the Invisible Hand: Economic Liberalism and the State in Latin American History
Guiding the Invisible Hand: Economic Liberalism and the State in Latin American History
La economia mexicana, 1830–1940: Obstaculos a la industrializacion (II)
A partir de la década de 1880, los obstáculos que habían limitado anteriormente la industrialización mexicana empezaron a desaparecer. La chispa que inició este proceso fue el flujo de capital procedente de Estados Unidos y Europa. En las últimas décadas del siglo XIX penetraron en México capitales y empresarios extranjeros (que conocían tecnologías y mercados concretos de los que no tenían conocimiento los capitalistas mexicanos) que desaguaron …
La economia mexicana, 1830–1940: Obstaculos a la industrializacion (I)
Después de que Inglaterra comenzara a finales del siglo xviii lo que llegó a ser conocido como la Primera Revolución Industrial, la tecnología industrial se difundió rápidamente por las naciones del Atlántico Norte. A los cincuenta años de haberse iniciado la industrialización en Gran Bretaña, el sistema fabril se había extendido por Europa Occidental y Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, Latinoamérica se quedó atrás. No fue hasta el siglo xx cuando la …
Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940
Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940
British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960
Concentracion industrial, desarrollo del mercado de capitales y redes financieras basadas en el parentesco: Un estudio comparado de Brasil, Mexico y los Estados Unidos, 1840–1930 (2. a parte)
Este artículo aborda la relación entre el desarrollo del mercado de capital y la estructura industrial durante las primeras etapas de la industrialización a partir de las experiencias de Brasil, México y los Estados Unidos. En él se arguye que las dos restricciones básicas a la formación de intermediaries crediticios en América Latina, una mala definición de derechos de propiedad y la intervención estatal, produjeron una concentración más alta en…
Concentración industrial, desarrollo del mercado de capitales y redes financieras basadas en el parentesco: Un estudio comparado de Brasil, Mexico y los Estados Unidos, 1840–1930 (1. a parte)
Este artículo aborda la relación entre el desarrollo del mercado de capital y la estructura industrial durante las primeras etapas de la industrialización a partir de las experiencias de Brasil, México y los Estados Unidos. En él se arguye que las dos restricciones básicas a la formación de intermediarios crediticios en América Latina, una mala definición de derechos de propiedad y la intervención estatal, produjeron una concentración más alta en…
Business Enterprise and the Great Depression in Brazil: A Study of Profits and Losses in Textile Manufacturing
This article employs previously unused accounting data and manuscript censuses to determine the impact of the Great Depression on Brazil's most important cotton textile manufacturers. It argues that the Great Depression, when viewed at the level of the individual business enterprise, had far more serious consequences than the previous literature, which relied on aggregate statistical data, suggests. The analysis presented here leads to the conclu…
Assessing the Obstacles to Industrialisation: The Mexican Economy, 1830-1940
After England began what came to be known as the First Industrial Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, industrial technology quickly diffused throughout the nations of the North Atlantic. Within fifty years of the first rumblings of British industrialisation, the factory system had spread to Western Europe and the United States. Latin America, however, lagged behind. It was not until the twentieth century that manufacturing came to le…
Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940
How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico
The Worst of Both Worlds: The New Cultural History of Mexico
Book Review| July 01 1997 The Worst of Both Worlds: The New Cultural History of Mexico Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern MexicoGilbert M. JosephDaniel NugentPeasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and PeruFlorencia E. MallonThe Postmodernism Debate in Latin AmericaJohn BeverlyMichael AronnaJosé OviedoWomen of the Mexican Countryside, 1850-1990Heather Fowler-SalaminiMary Kay Vaughan S…
Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations
July 01 1997 Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations Stephen H. Haber, Stephen H. Haber Stephen H. Haber is Professor of History and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at Stanford University. He is working on a book about the regulation of capital markets and industrial development in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States during the early stages of economic growth. Search for other works by this author on: This…
Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations
July 01 1997 Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations Stephen H. Haber, Stephen H. Haber Stephen H. Haber is Professor of History and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at Stanford University. He is working on a book about the regulation of capital markets and industrial development in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States during the early stages of economic growth. Search for other works by this author on: This…
Political Instability And Economic Performance: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico
What is the relationship between political instability and economic growth? This article examines this question using insights from the new institutional economics applied to a canonical case: revolutionary Mexico. The authors argue that investment and growth during and after the revolution were less affected by political instability than one might predict based on the extant theoretical and empirical literature. They find that while investor exp…
The Rate of Growth of Productivity in Mexico, 1850-1933: Evidence from the Cotton Textile Industry
This article employs previously unused data sources and techniques in order to estimate labour productivity and total factor productivity in the Mexican cotton textile industry over the period 1850-1933. Our findings indicate: (1) substantial productivity growth prior to the Porfiriato; (2) rapid productivity growth throughout the Porfiriato; (3) a swift, though incomplete, recovery from the Revolution during the 1920s; and, (4) an insignificant …
How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914
Contents 1. HABER STEPHEN 2. LEFF NATHANIEL H. 3. CARDENAS ENRIQUE 4. SUMMERHILL WILLIAM 5. MARICHAL CARLOS 6. HABER STEPHEN 7. CHOWNING MARGARET 8. SALVUCCI RICHARD J. 9. HABER STEPHEN KLEIN HERBERT S. 10. ENGERMAN STANLEY L. SOKOLOFF KENNETH L
Anything Goes: Mexico's "New" Cultural History
The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876–1929
This book, first published in 2003, addresses a puzzle in political economy: why is it that political instability does not necessarily translate into economic stagnation or collapse? In order to address this puzzle, it advances a theory about property rights systems in many less developed countries. In this theory, governments do not have to enforce property rights as a public good. Instead, they may enforce property rights selectively (as a priv…
When the Law Does Not Matter: The Rise and Decline of the Mexican Oil Industry
Changes in formal institutions do not always affect economic outcomes. When an industry has specific technological features that limit a government's ability to expropriate it, or when the industry is able to call on foreign governments to enforce its de facto property rights, economic agents can easily mitigate changes in formal institutions designed to reduce these property rights. We explore the Mexican oil industry from 1911 to 1929 and demon…
Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico
Related lending, a widespread practice in LDCs, is widely held to encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On the contrary, related lending often exists as a response to high information and contract-enforcement costs. Whether it encourages looting depends on other institutions, particularly those …
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