Lewis, Colin M.


Professor Colin M. Lewis  

Department

Position held

Department of Economic History

Professor of Latin American Economic History

Experience keywords:

Latin American industrial growth; Argentina; social welfare and social policy - Brazil and the Argentine; political economy, state-making and fiscal policy - Latin America; economic policy; state formation; Latin America; social policy; inter-war period; Brazil; British business and the Argentine

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Argentina; Brazil

Languages:

Portuguese [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Basic]; Spanish [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

Radio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7065

Publications

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2013

Lewis, Colin M. (2013) 'Colonial' industry and 'modern' manufacturing: opportunities for labour-intensive growth in Latin America, c.1800-1940. In: Austin, Gareth and Sugihara, Kaoru, (eds.) Labour-intensive industrialization in global history. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415455527

2009

Lewis, Colin M. and Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter (2009) Social policy and economic development in South America: an historical approach to social insurance. Economy and society, 38 (1). pp. 109-131. ISSN 1469-5766

2008

Lewis, Colin M. (2008) Fiscal policy and external constraints: state credibility, taxation, public goods and the budget. In: Sanchez-Ancochea, Diego and Morgan, Iwan, (eds.) The political economy of the public budget in the Americas. Institute for the Study of the Americas, London, UK, pp. 33-59. ISBN 9781900039949

Lewis, Colin M. (2008) Britain, Argentina and informal empire. In: Brown, Matthew, (ed.) Informal empire in Latin America: culture, commerce and capital. Wiley-Blackwell, London, UK, pp. 99-123. ISBN 9781405179324

Lewis, Colin M. (2008) Modernisation and industrialisation. In: Holloway, Thomas H., (ed.) A companion to Latin American history. Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 285-306. ISBN 978-1405131612

2005

Lewis, Colin M. (2005) States and markets in Latin America: the political economy of economic intervention. Working Papers of the Global Economic History Network (GEHN), 09/05. Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2004

Lewis, Colin M. (2004) States and markets in Latin America: the rise and decline of economic interventionism. In: Lears, Jackson and van Scherpenberg, Jens, (eds.) Culture of economy: economics of culture. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 32-58. ISBN 9783825315368

Lewis, Colin M. (2004) States and markets in Latin America, the rise and decline of economic interventionism. In: Lears, Jackson and Scherpenberg, Jens van, (eds.) Cultures of economy: economics of culture. Winter, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 32-58. ISBN 3825315363

2003

Lewis, Colin M. (2003) Workers and ‘subalterns’: a comparative study of labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Economic History Working Papers, 73/03. Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2002

Lewis, Colin M. and Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter (2002) Social insurance regimes: crises and 'reform' in the Argentine and Brazil, since c. 1900. Economic History Working Papers, 68/02. Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Lewis, Colin M. (2002) From developmentalism to neoliberalism, 1945 - 2001. In: Heenan, P. and Lamontagne, M., (eds.) The South American handbook. Fitzroy Dearborn, London, UK, pp. 29-42.

Lewis, Colin M. (2002) The political economy of state-making: the Argentine, 1852-1955. In: Dunkerley, James, (ed.) Studies in the formation of the nation-state in Latin America. Institute of Latin American Studies, London, UK, pp. 161-188. ISBN 1900039419

Lewis, Colin M. and Abel, Christopher and Lewis, Colin M. and Abel, Christopher (2002) Exclusion and engagement: social policy in Latin America. University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies, London, UK. ISBN 1900039508

Lewis, Colin M. (2002) Argentina: a short history. Oneworld, Oxford, UK. ISBN 1851683003

Lewis, Colin M. (2002) Argentina : a short history. Penguin, London, UK. ISBN 9781851683000

Lewis, Colin M. (2002) Transporte y comunicaciones. In: Nueva Historia de la Nación Argentina Tomo IX - Cuarta Parte: La Argentina del siglo XX, c.1914-1983. Planeta, Buenos Aires, pp. 151-184. ISBN 9789504909569

Lewis, Colin M., (ed.) (2002) Exclusion and engagement : social policy in Latin America. Institute of Latin American Studies, London, UK. ISBN 1900039508

Lewis, Colin M. (2002) A industria na América Latina, 1850-1930. In: Bethell, Leslie, (ed.) História da América Latina, 1870-1930. Ed USP, São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 111-174. ISBN 9788484321071

2000

Lewis, Colin M. (2000) Business cultures: Latin America. In: Warner, Malcolm, (ed.) Management in the Americas. Business Press, London, UK, pp. 108-115. ISBN 1861524048

1999

Lewis, Colin M. (1999) Argentina. In: Buxton, Julia and Phillips, Nicola, (eds.) Case studies in Latin American political economy. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, pp. 33-61. ISBN 0719054575

Lewis, Colin M. (1999) The economics of the Latin American State: ideology, policy and performance, c. 1820-1945. In: Smith, David A and Solinger, Dorothy J and Topik, Steven C, (eds.) States and sovereignty in the global economy. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 99-119. ISBN 0415201195

Lewis, Colin M. (1999) Argentina. In: Buxton, Julia and Phillips, Nicola, (eds.) Case studies in Latin American political economy. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 33-61. ISBN 9780719054570

Lewis, Colin M. (1999) Business history in Brazil from the mid-nineteenth century to 1945. In: Dávila, Carlos and Miller, Rory, (eds.) Business history in Latin America: the experience of seven countries. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, UK, pp. 43-59. ISBN 0853237239

1998

Lewis, Colin M. (1998) Explaining economic decline: a review of recent debates in the economic and social history literature on the Argentine. European review of Latin American and Caribbean studies, 64 pp. 49-68. ISSN 0924-0608

Lewis, Colin M. and O'Brien, Patrick (1998) Industry in Latin America. In: Industrialisation: critical perspectives on the world economy. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 427-461. ISBN 9780415123693

1995

Lewis, Colin M. (1995) British business in Argentina. Economic History working papers, 26/95. Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Lewis, Colin M. (1995) Industry before 1930: a bibliography. In: Bethell, Leslie, (ed.) The Cambridge history of Latin America. Latin America since 1930, ideas, culture, and society. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 349-358. ISBN 0521495946

Lewis, Colin M. and Hunter, Janet and Harriss, John, (eds.) (1995) The new institutional economics and third world development. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 0415118239

1993

Lewis, Colin M. and Torrents, Nissa, (eds.) (1993) Argentina in the crisis years (1983-1990): from Alfonsin to Menem. Institute of Latin American Studies, London, UK. ISBN 0901145874

Lewis, Colin M. (1993) Industry in Latin America. In: Bernecker, W L and Tobler, Hans Werner, (eds.) Development and underdevelopment in America: contrasts of economic growth in North and Latin America in historical perspective. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 264-302. ISBN 3110135183

Lewis, Colin M. (1993) Social insurance: ideology and policy in the Argentine, c.1920-1966. In: Lewis, Colin M. and Abel, Christopher, (eds.) Welfare, poverty and development in Latin America. Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, pp. 175-200. ISBN 0333517377

Lewis, Colin M. (1993) Welfare, poverty and development in Latin America. Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 0333517377

Lewis, Colin M. (1993) Latin America: independence and national growth, 1810 - 1910. In: Barraclough, Geoffrey and Parker, Geoffrey, (eds.) The Times atlas of world history. Times Books, London, UK. ISBN 9780723005346

1992

Lewis, Colin M. (1992) Industry in Latin America. In: Reinhard, Wolfgang and Waldmann, Peter, (eds.) Nord und Süd in Amerika: Gemeinsamkeiten, Gegensätze, Europäischer Hintergrund : Ergebnisse einer Wissenschaftslichen Tagung. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg, Germany, pp. 739-770. ISBN 3793090809

Lewis, Colin M. (1992) Economic restructuring and labour scarcity: labour in the 1920s. In: Adelman, Jeremy, (ed.) Essays in Argentine labour history 1870-1930. Macmillan Press, London, UK, pp. 177-198. ISBN 0333551842

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