Interpretative Essays of Historical Statistics

on Latin America in World Context

 

STATISTICALLY MEASURING CHANGE

IN

LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD

 

VOLUME 2 OF 4

 

SEMINAR IN HISTORICAL STATISTICS

 

UCLA

 

PROFESSOR JAMES W. WILKIE

 

Winter 2012

 

The articles included here were originally

Developed in the Graduate Seminar and Published

in or under the auspices of the

Statistical Abstract of Latin America (SALA)

And its Supplement Series.

 

(Copyright by UCLA Latin American Center Publications)

 

 

  CONTENTS

 

Themes and Titles

 

John King. "Comparative Analysis of Human Rights Violations Under Military Rule in Argentina. Brazil. Chile and 'Uruguay" (1989)

VII. Industrial Wages and Food Production

 

Bradley Pinchot. "Real Industrial Wages in Postwar Latin America" (1992)

 

Maureen DeLucca. Food Production Per Capita in Latin America. 1952-1990 [and Basic Food Supply in Central America. 1962-1990]" (1993)

 

Manuel Moreno Ibáñez. "Latin American Fisheries: Natural Resources and Expanded Jurisdiction. 1931-1978" (1981)

 

VIII. Debate about Measuring Change

 

1.     Thomas E Skidmore and Peter H. Smith. "Notes on Quantitative History: Federal Expenditure and Social Change in Mexico Since 1910" (1970)

 

versus

 

J. Wilkie. "On Methodology and the Use of Historical Statistics" (1970)

 

 

2.     Felix G. Boni and Mitchell A. Seligson, "Applying Quantitative Techniques to Quantitative History: Poverty and Federal Expenditures in Mexico" (1973)

 

versus

 

J. Wilkie. "On Quantitative History: The Poverty Index for Mexico" (1975)

 

Debate about Philosophy and Historical Change (1984)

 

J. Wilkie. "The Historical View of Octavio Paz: A Critique of the Washington Address"

 

versus

 

William Gingerich. "The Poetics of History: A Defense of the Washington Address"

 

X. Budgetary Analysis

 

 

J. Wilkie. "Changes in Mexico Since 1895: Central Government Revenue. Public Sector Expenditure and National Economic Growth" (1985)

 

J. Wilkie. "Mexico's 'New' Financial Crisis of 1982 in Historical Perspective" (1982)

 

J. Wilkie. "The Mexican Financial Imbroglio: Debt. Public Expenditure and Nationalized Banking" (1989)

 

Thomas B. Millington. "Bolivian Public Expenditure and the Role of Decentralized Agencies: A Test of the Wilkie View" (1981)

XI. Money and Politics in Latin America (Excerpts from the Book) (1977)

 

J. Wilkie. "Introduction"

 

Enrique A. Baloyra, "Democratic and Dictatorial Budgeting: The Case of Cuba with Reference to Venezuela and Mexico"

 

James A. Hanson. "Federal Expenditures and 'Personalism' in the Mexican 'Institutional' Revolution

 

 

Davl.d K. Eiteman, "Financing Argentine Industrial Growth in the Aftermath of the First Perón Period"