Accidental fortune: natural resources and creation of property regimes in the americas

Autori

  • Guillermo Arribas Irazola Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18800/themis.201701.016

Parole chiave:

property regime, natural resources, mining, colonialism

Abstract

Why are some countries of Latin America poor despite their great wealth? From the colony to the republic, many Latin American economies have focused on the extraction of natural resources.
In the following article, the author will develop a historical analysis of the Spanish conquest. Specially focusing on the Peruvian case, the author will explain how this background shaped a top-down property regime with longstanding effects.
To duly explain the “Accidental Fortune”, a constant comparison will be make between the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and the British colonization of North America. The author will show how the found resources guided each case into different directions.

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Biografia autore

  • Guillermo Arribas Irazola, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

    Mr. Arribas wishes to thank to Carol Rose, Robert Ellickson, Claire Priest, Steven Pincus for their generous contributions to earlier versions of this paper and for their support throughout his research work, Micaela Bullard, Isabella Uria and Bradley Hayes for their constant support reviewing earlier versions of this paper.

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Pubblicato

2017-04-24

Fascicolo

N. 71 (2017): Derecho procesal y arbitraje

Sezione

Interdisciplinarias

Licenza

Copyright (c) 2018 TH?MIS-Revista de Derecho

Creative Commons License

Questo volume è pubblicato con la licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione 4.0 Internazionale.

Come citare

Accidental fortune: natural resources and creation of property regimes in the americas. (2017). THEMIS Revista de Derecho, 71, 239-255. https://doi.org/10.18800/themis.201701.016