Event Description
The Spain and Portugal that conquered what is now Latin America were the most productive and sophisticated societies in 16th-century Europe — certainly more so than any rain-bound island populated by Saxons pretending that their grandmothers hadn’t been Welsh. But Latin America never realized its utopian New World-promise. Why, exactly? And are those blockages now gone?
Speaker
Brad DeLong is a professor of Economics at UC Berkeley and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.