Capitalists, Business and State-Building in Chile

Manuel Llorca-Jaña is Professor of Economic History at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile.Rory M. Miller is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK.Diego Barría is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile.

• 1. Introduction: Business History in Chile in the Twentieth Century.- 2. Entrepreneurial Families, Inheritances and Wealth Transfers: The Edwards Family and their Transition from Entrepreneurs to Rentiers, 1880-1914.- 3. Baburizza: A Business Group in Chile in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.- 4. Managed Decline, Headlong Retreat or Entrepreneurial Failure? British Nitrate Producers and the Withdrawal from Chile, 1920-1930.- 5. Riding on a Roller-Coaster: The Rise and Decline of the Anglo South American Bank.- 6. Economic Policy and Foreign Capital in the Creation and Rise of Copec.- 7. Chile´s Business Network in 1939: Between the Global Crisis and Adaptation to State-led Industrialization Policies.- 8. Electricity Generation and Electric Power in Chile before 1975.- 9. On the Origins of the ‘(Neo)liberal Project’ in Chile:  Entrepreneurs in the 1950s.- 10. Chilean Multinationals: Contexts, Paths, Strategies.