El gigante con pies de barro: ¿Fue la Argentina realmente rica? El capital humano durante la primera globalización en una perspectiva comparada

This paper aims to explore an overlooked aspect in the literature of comparative economic history between Argentina, Australia and Canada: human capital. By comparing these countries in the years of the First Globalization, it analyzes the stocks of human capital that Argentina had during the late nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth, and proposes a contribution: Belle Epoque’s Argentina shows a problem of regional inequality (and of persistence of that inequality) that is absent in the rest of the “economies of recent settlement”.