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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Yucatan's arrested development: Social networks and credit markets in Merida, 1850--1899 Abstract: This dissertation analyzed the effects of economic inequality and concentration through the development and social structure of Mérida's mortgage market. This dissertation argues that the internal dynamics of Yucatan's agricultural export boom in the late nineteenth century are central to the arrested development of the region, and to this end I study how social relations at the local level shaped the development and the history of this regional economy. I analyze how Yucatan's mortgage market developed during this period in the absence of formal financial institutions, and how notaries contributed to this development. I focus specifically on credit markets because they are an essential foundation for economic growth as well as a central mechanism of wealth redistribution. The dissertation reveals how the development of the credit market was shaped by structure of the local society, by focusing on the role played by landed wealth, social connections, reputation, and gender in the development of the local mortgage market. |
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