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Investment Behavior and Elite Social Structures in Latin America
- Source :
- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs. 16:73-95
- Publication Year :
- 1974
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1974.
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Abstract
- This paper is an attempt at an interdisciplinary analysis of some of the problems relating to financial activities, decisionmaking, and social structure among elite Latin American kin and business groups. It represents a cooperative effort by two economists and an anthropologist that results, we believe, in a view of these problems that is of significance to both disciplines.As Kaplan (1965) has pointed out, the great difficulty in developing true interdisciplinary research arises in translating the concepts and theories of one field into those of the other, or in developing a new common conceptual framework. What this paper does, very briefly, is to take the basic Tobin-Markowitz model, which is an attempt to describe the decision-making process of an investor putting together a portfolio in a risky world, and modify it to allow for the difficulty of obtaining accurate information about the economic environment in Latin America.
- Subjects :
- 021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Latin Americans
Investment behavior
Political economy
05 social sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
Elite
050602 political science & public administration
0211 other engineering and technologies
Economics
02 engineering and technology
Social structure
0506 political science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21622736 and 00221937
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7b8e8612241bd19cd07a85f4155f8d99