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Has Latin America Always Been Unequal? A Comparative Study of Asset and Income Inequality in the Long Twentieth Century., Global Economic History Series, Volume 3. By Ewout Frankema. Leiden and Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2009. Pp. 291. $144.00, hardcover.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2012

JEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON
JEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON*
Affiliation:
Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , 12 March 2012 , pp. 272 - 274
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