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1. Introduction; Jorge Alvarez and Svante Prado.- Part 1. Latin America and Scandinavia.- 2. Latin American and Nordic countries: a renewed tradition of comparative studies; Jorge lvarez, Luis Brtola and Jan Bohlin.- Part 2: Trade, industrialisation and growth.- 3. Foreign trade and economic growth in Scandinavia, Australasia and the Rio de la Plata region, 1870-1970; Jorge lvarez, Luis Brtola and Jan Bohlin.- 4. Structural change, industrial growth and economic development in the Nordic and Southern Settler Societies, 1870-1970; Jorge lvarez, Luis Brtola and Jan Bohlin.- 5. Long-term comparative levels of labour productivity in manufacturing, c. 1890-2010; Cecilia Lara and Svante Prado.- Part 3: Dimensions of inequality.- 6. Wage differentials, 1920-2010; Svante Prado, Thales Pereira and Jakob Molinder.- 7. Land-ownership systems and agrarian income distribution in Denmark, New Zealand and Uruguay during the First Globalisation Era; Jorge lvarez and Mara de las Mercedes Menndez.- 8. Democratisation and the rise of the welfare state; Erik Bengtsson and Marc Morgan.- 9. The role of education in modernisation drives in Brazil and in Sweden; Thomas Kang and Anders Nilsson.
