Albert Fishlow
Biographic Data
| ID | 999399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Fishlow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Fishlow |
| SIGNATURE | FISHLOW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6561-2313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Higher Education in Brazil: Retrospective, current challenges and looking ahead
Higher Education has become an increasingly competitive field, and knowledge, its essence, has become a global commodity. Consequently, universities all over the world have been under pressure to respond to growing new demands quickly, dynamically and creatively. In the Brazilian context, overcoming the challenges that these Higher Education institutions face requires a significant effort to adapt and change, especially by public universities. In…
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-Bellum Economy
Kenneth Maxwell
The United States and the Americas: A Twenty-First-Century View
Canada and Mexico are our first and second largest trading partners. We sell more to Brazil than to China, more to Chile than to India. Venezuela is our number-one energy supplier. We are committed to establishing a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005. But the relationship goes well beyond economics. We are inextricably and increasingly linked politically by immigration, drug policy, environment, human rights issues, and regional security. Th…
Miracle or Design: Lessons from the East Asian Experience
The W. Arthur Lewis Lecture: Future Sustainable Latin American Growth: A Need for Savings
This article, starting from the Lewis emphasis upon increasing productivity, analyzes the external and internal sources of disequilibrium in Latin America over the last two decades. It indicates the impressive progress, and continuing requirements, that have been made in both dimensions over the last fifteen years. The real requirement for continued growth at high rates, emphasized by Lewis more than 45 years ago, is, however, increased rates of …
Economic development in the 1990s
Tax evasion, inflation and stabilization
Latin American Economic Development: 1950-1980
In the thirty years between 1950 and 1980, Latin America experienced rapid growth. During this period, output expanded at an annual rate of 5.5% with per capita increases averaging 2.7% a year. Table 1 provides country details. The star is clearly Brazil, whose share in regional product increased from less than a quarter to more than a third. At the other extreme are two groups: the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay), whose mid-century …
The Latin American State
The role of the state in Latin American economic development is undergoing fundamental reconsideration. This essay focuses on the reasons underlying the new commitment to reduced state participation. In particular, I suggest that the impetus comes less from newfound ideological conviction in the virtues of the market than from ineffective macroeconomic policy in the 1980s. The principal problem confronted by the countries of the region is a fisca…
Latin American Failure against the Backdrop of Asian Success
This article examines the principal reasons for the poor Latin American economic performance in contrast to Asian success in the last decade. These include an adverse international economy that discriminated against large debtors, a set of domestic distortions introduced by excess external debt, and a political incapacity to implement coherent and consistent adjustment policies
Deficits, debt and destabilization
Latin America in the 1930's: The role of the periphery in world crisis
The East European debt crisis in the Latin American mirror
In these brief remarks addressed to the Latin American response to changing international conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, I shall focus on three issues: the relationship between the choice of debt as a policy instrument and state “structure,” at least as loosely denned; the special problems posed by the debt option that most Latin American countries pursue; and the characteristics of enforced domestic adjustment to the absence of capital inflo…
A crise da dívida: Uma perspectiva mais a longo prazo
O ano de 1984 foi marcado por importantes avanços no enfrentamento do endividamento dos países em desenvolvimento. Não é de estranhar, face aos ganhos registados em 1984, que exista uma certa complacência e mesmo presunção quanto à evolução contínua do problema da dívida. Este artigo examina quatro questões principais das quais depende a evolução futura do problema da dívida. O primeiro é a influência da atividade econômica internacional no desem…
Lessons from the past: Capital Markets During the 19th Century and the Interwar Period
On Friday, 13 August 1982, Finance Minster Jesus Silva Herzog of Mexico made a series of visits to the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Treasury. His message to each was the same: Mexico could no longer continue to service its debt. Thus began a dramatic weekend of negotiations that marked the end of the preceding decade's buoyant expansion of developing country debt and the start of a still continuing response to th…
Summary comment on Adelman, Balassa and Streeten
The United States and Brazil: The Case of the Missing Relationship
A new Latin America in a new international capital market
The timeliness of another look at the development prospects and policy options for Latin America can hardly be disputed. Another shock from a significant increase in the price of petroleum is adding to the burdens of a world economy already mired in stagflation. The recent UNCTAD meeting has not produced a common programme for accelerating and spreading economic development: on the contrary, divisions among and between the industrialized and deve…
For a New Policy of International Development
Journal Article For a New Policy of International Development Get access For a New Policy of International Development. By ANGELOS TH. ANGELOPOULOS. (New York: Praeger, 1978. Distributed by Martin Robertson, London. Pp. xxiii+ 137. .£10.05 hardback, £3.60 paperback.)Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy. By ALBERT FISHLOW, CARLOS DIAZALEJANDRO, RICHARD R. FAGEN, and ROGER D. HANSEN. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Pp. xii + 264. $6.95.)Issues …
Debt Remains a Problem
Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy
Flying down to Rio: Perspectives on U.S.-Brazil Relations
Quantitative Economic History: An Interim Evaluation Past Trends and Present Tendencies
Few recent intellectual currents have been so self-consciously controversial as the New Economic History. It has been a rare meeting patronized by historians or economists that has not featured a discussion of the merits and defects of applying theoretical and quantitative constructs to historical problems. This occasion is obviously no exception. Yet milestones must be respected, and on this thirtieth anniversary, a review of the profitability, …
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante Bellum Economy
Lessons from the past: Capital Markets During the 19th Century and the Interwar Period
On Friday, 13 August 1982, Finance Minster Jesus Silva Herzog of Mexico made a series of visits to the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Treasury. His message to each was the same: Mexico could no longer continue to service its debt. Thus began a dramatic weekend of negotiations that marked the end of the preceding decade's buoyant expansion of developing country debt and the start of a still continuing response to th…
Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century
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Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy
Levels of Nineteenth-Century American Investment in Education
From the earliest time, the United States and her predecessor colonies stood close to or at the very forefront of the world in the educational attainment of the mass of the populace. The first available literacy statistics of 1840 testify to that past impressive accomplishment: overall, more than 90 per cent of white adults achieved this degree of minimum competence, and even in the laggard South the record was not significantly poorer. At that d…
The Latin American State
The role of the state in Latin American economic development is undergoing fundamental reconsideration. This essay focuses on the reasons underlying the new commitment to reduced state participation. In particular, I suggest that the impetus comes less from newfound ideological conviction in the virtues of the market than from ineffective macroeconomic policy in the 1980s. The principal problem confronted by the countries of the region is a fisca…
The Trustee Savings Banks, 1817–1861
The economic historian is well aware of the philanthropic origins of savings banks. Both in Western Europe and the United States they were initially established by public spirited individuals as a depository for the funds of small savers. It is not so widely appreciated that such banks were encouraged officially as a part of social policy in England during the nineteenth century. In an age in which self-help and individual thrift were conceived a…
Quantitative Economic History: An Interim Evaluation Past Trends and Present Tendencies
Few recent intellectual currents have been so self-consciously controversial as the New Economic History. It has been a rare meeting patronized by historians or economists that has not featured a discussion of the merits and defects of applying theoretical and quantitative constructs to historical problems. This occasion is obviously no exception. Yet milestones must be respected, and on this thirtieth anniversary, a review of the profitability, …
Latin American Failure against the Backdrop of Asian Success
This article examines the principal reasons for the poor Latin American economic performance in contrast to Asian success in the last decade. These include an adverse international economy that discriminated against large debtors, a set of domestic distortions introduced by excess external debt, and a political incapacity to implement coherent and consistent adjustment policies
Empty Economic Stages
Journal Article Empty Economic Stages? Get access Albert Fishlow Albert Fishlow University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 75, Issue 297, 1 March 1965, Pages 112–125, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229239 Published: 01 March 1965
Latin American Economic Development: 1950-1980
In the thirty years between 1950 and 1980, Latin America experienced rapid growth. During this period, output expanded at an annual rate of 5.5% with per capita increases averaging 2.7% a year. Table 1 provides country details. The star is clearly Brazil, whose share in regional product increased from less than a quarter to more than a third. At the other extreme are two groups: the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay), whose mid-century …
Economic development in the 1990s
Latin America in the 1930's: The role of the periphery in world crisis
The East European debt crisis in the Latin American mirror
In these brief remarks addressed to the Latin American response to changing international conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, I shall focus on three issues: the relationship between the choice of debt as a policy instrument and state “structure,” at least as loosely denned; the special problems posed by the debt option that most Latin American countries pursue; and the characteristics of enforced domestic adjustment to the absence of capital inflo…
The United States and Brazil: The Case of the Missing Relationship
Discussion of Bjork paper
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
Summary comment on Adelman, Balassa and Streeten
Debt Remains a Problem
Flying down to Rio: Perspectives on U.S.-Brazil Relations
Optimal Resource Allocation in an Imperfect Market Setting
The Trustee Savings Banks, 1817–1861
The economic historian is well aware of the philanthropic origins of savings banks. Both in Western Europe and the United States they were initially established by public spirited individuals as a depository for the funds of small savers. It is not so widely appreciated that such banks were encouraged officially as a part of social policy in England during the nineteenth century. In an age in which self-help and individual thrift were conceived a…
Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century
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
Discussion of Bjork paper
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
Empty Economic Stages
Journal Article Empty Economic Stages? Get access Albert Fishlow Albert Fishlow University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 75, Issue 297, 1 March 1965, Pages 112–125, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229239 Published: 01 March 1965
Levels of Nineteenth-Century American Investment in Education
From the earliest time, the United States and her predecessor colonies stood close to or at the very forefront of the world in the educational attainment of the mass of the populace. The first available literacy statistics of 1840 testify to that past impressive accomplishment: overall, more than 90 per cent of white adults achieved this degree of minimum competence, and even in the laggard South the record was not significantly poorer. At that d…
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante Bellum Economy
Quantitative Economic History: An Interim Evaluation Past Trends and Present Tendencies
Few recent intellectual currents have been so self-consciously controversial as the New Economic History. It has been a rare meeting patronized by historians or economists that has not featured a discussion of the merits and defects of applying theoretical and quantitative constructs to historical problems. This occasion is obviously no exception. Yet milestones must be respected, and on this thirtieth anniversary, a review of the profitability, …
Debt Remains a Problem
Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy
Flying down to Rio: Perspectives on U.S.-Brazil Relations
For a New Policy of International Development
Journal Article For a New Policy of International Development Get access For a New Policy of International Development. By ANGELOS TH. ANGELOPOULOS. (New York: Praeger, 1978. Distributed by Martin Robertson, London. Pp. xxiii+ 137. .£10.05 hardback, £3.60 paperback.)Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy. By ALBERT FISHLOW, CARLOS DIAZALEJANDRO, RICHARD R. FAGEN, and ROGER D. HANSEN. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Pp. xii + 264. $6.95.)Issues …
A new Latin America in a new international capital market
The timeliness of another look at the development prospects and policy options for Latin America can hardly be disputed. Another shock from a significant increase in the price of petroleum is adding to the burdens of a world economy already mired in stagflation. The recent UNCTAD meeting has not produced a common programme for accelerating and spreading economic development: on the contrary, divisions among and between the industrialized and deve…
The United States and Brazil: The Case of the Missing Relationship
Summary comment on Adelman, Balassa and Streeten
A crise da dívida: Uma perspectiva mais a longo prazo
O ano de 1984 foi marcado por importantes avanços no enfrentamento do endividamento dos países em desenvolvimento. Não é de estranhar, face aos ganhos registados em 1984, que exista uma certa complacência e mesmo presunção quanto à evolução contínua do problema da dívida. Este artigo examina quatro questões principais das quais depende a evolução futura do problema da dívida. O primeiro é a influência da atividade econômica internacional no desem…
Lessons from the past: Capital Markets During the 19th Century and the Interwar Period
On Friday, 13 August 1982, Finance Minster Jesus Silva Herzog of Mexico made a series of visits to the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Treasury. His message to each was the same: Mexico could no longer continue to service its debt. Thus began a dramatic weekend of negotiations that marked the end of the preceding decade's buoyant expansion of developing country debt and the start of a still continuing response to th…
Latin America in the 1930's: The role of the periphery in world crisis
The East European debt crisis in the Latin American mirror
In these brief remarks addressed to the Latin American response to changing international conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, I shall focus on three issues: the relationship between the choice of debt as a policy instrument and state “structure,” at least as loosely denned; the special problems posed by the debt option that most Latin American countries pursue; and the characteristics of enforced domestic adjustment to the absence of capital inflo…
Deficits, debt and destabilization
Latin American Failure against the Backdrop of Asian Success
This article examines the principal reasons for the poor Latin American economic performance in contrast to Asian success in the last decade. These include an adverse international economy that discriminated against large debtors, a set of domestic distortions introduced by excess external debt, and a political incapacity to implement coherent and consistent adjustment policies
The Latin American State
The role of the state in Latin American economic development is undergoing fundamental reconsideration. This essay focuses on the reasons underlying the new commitment to reduced state participation. In particular, I suggest that the impetus comes less from newfound ideological conviction in the virtues of the market than from ineffective macroeconomic policy in the 1980s. The principal problem confronted by the countries of the region is a fisca…
Latin American Economic Development: 1950-1980
In the thirty years between 1950 and 1980, Latin America experienced rapid growth. During this period, output expanded at an annual rate of 5.5% with per capita increases averaging 2.7% a year. Table 1 provides country details. The star is clearly Brazil, whose share in regional product increased from less than a quarter to more than a third. At the other extreme are two groups: the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay), whose mid-century …
Economic development in the 1990s
Tax evasion, inflation and stabilization
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