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Latin America and Global Trade
November 16-17 2001
A Conference sponsored by
Social Science History Institute
Stanford University
Contact:
Zephyr L. Frank
Department of History
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
zfrank@stanford.edu
The purpose of the conference is two-fold. First, it seeks to advance the debate regarding exogenous and endogenous factors in Latin American economic development. In particular, the role of external demand and internal institutions/factors will be analyzed in comparative, quantitative perspective. Even as dependency theory has lost its place as the predominant theoretical framework for understanding Latin American underdevelopment, scholars continue to search for systemic models with which to explain the place of Latin America in global trade. The concept of commodity chains provides one such method of analysis; yet, in order for any new consensus to develop regarding global or systemic factors in trade and development, scholars will have to account for the powerful and growing evidence generated by the New Institutional Economics that points to internal institutional factors as determinative of the structure of the economy and the trajectory of growth.
Second, the conference provides a coordinating forum for participants in the panel, "Latin America and Global Trade," to be presented at the International Economic History meeting to be held in Buenos Aires in 2002. The invitees will present preliminary versions of their papers to the Stanford Social Science History Institute community in November 2001, then to the international scholarly community in Buenos Aires in 2002. The quality and coherence of the Buenos Aires panel and the planned edited volume will benefit greatly from the opportunity to present and discuss the papers in advance.
Carlos Marichal* (El Colegio de México)
Steven Topik* (Irvine)
Zephyr Frank** and Aldo Musacchio (Stanford)
Joseph Love (Illinois)
Allen Wells (Bowdoin)
Marcelo Bucheli (Stanford)
Paul Gootenberg (Stony Brook)
Mary Ann Mahony (Indiana)
Dennis Kortheuer (Cal State Long Beach)
Laura Nater (U. of Puerto Rico)
David Weiland (Utah State)
*coordinators for Buenos Aires 2002
**coordinator for Stanford 2001
Noel Maurer (ITAM)
Scott Wilson (Stanford)
Mike Tomz (Stanford)
Anne Hanley (Northern Illinois)
David McCreery (Georgia State)
Lyman Johnson (UNC Charlotte)
FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 16, 2001
10:00 AM Theoretical Considerations and an Introduction to Commodity
Chains
Opening remarks by Stephen Haber, director of SSHI and Professor of History
and Political Science, Stanford University
Presentation by Carlos Marichal & Steven Topik
Joseph L. Love, Illinois. "Prebisch, UNCTAD, and the NIEO."
Discussant: Scott Wilson, Stanford.
LUNCH
1:00 PM Coca and Cocoa
Paul Gootenberg (SUNY-Stony Brook)
The Rise and Demise of Coca and
Cocaine (separate tables
in MS Word)
Mary Ann Mahony, Indiana. "The Rise of the International Cocoa Economy: the Role of Demand"
Discussant: David McCreery, Georgia State U.
3:30 PM Coffee and Bananas
Steven Topik, UC Irvine. "How Coffee Became the Most International Beverage: the Case of Brazilian Coffee, 1830-1930"
Marcelo Bucheli, Stanford.
The Rise of the Banana Industry
at the Turn of the Century: the Importance of Demand in the United States
Discussant: Mike Tomz, Stanford.
DINNER: Ming's Restaurant, Palo Alto, 7 PM
SATURDAY - NOVEMBER 17, 2001
10:00 AM Rubber and Cochineal
Zephyr Frank and Aldo Musacchio (Stanford University)
Brazil in the International
Rubber Trade (1870-1930) (separate tables
in Excel format)
Carlos Marichal, El Colegio de México.
A Forgotten Chapter of International
Trade: Mexican Cochineal and the European Demand for American Dyes, 1550-1850
Discussant: Anne Hanley, Northern Illinois.
LUNCH
1:00 PM Sugar and Tobacco
Allen Wells, Bowdoin.
Did 1898 Mark a Fundamental Transformation
for the Cuban Sugar Industry?
Laura Náter (University of Puerto Rico)
The Origins of the International Tobacco
Trade: the Case of the Colonial Tobacco Industry in Spanish America
Discussant: Johnson
3:30 PM Copper and Silver
Dennis Kortheuer, UC Irvine. "Latin American Copper and International Demand at the Dawn of the Electrical Age"
David Weiland "Making Global Trade "Global:" The Profit Motive Behind Spanish American Silver for Chinese Silk, 1550-1700."
Discussant: Noel Maurer, ITAM.
5:30 PM Adjourn
