Selected Publications:
Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913 (Stanford University Press, 2003)
"Transport Improvements and Economic Growth in Brazil and Mexico," chapter in Stephen Haber, ed . How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914 (Stanford, 1997).
"Market Intervention in a Backward Economy: Railroad Subsidy in Brazil, 1854-1913," Economic History Review, August, 1998.
"Railroads in Imperial Brazil," chapter in John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor, eds., Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800 (Cambridge MA: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies/Harvard University Press,1998).
"Institutional Determinants of Railroad Subsidy and Regulation in Imperial Brazil," chapter in Stephen Haber, ed. Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America: Essays in Policy, History, and Political Economy (Stanford, 2000).
"Order, Disorder, and Economic Change: Latin America vs. North America" (with Douglass North and Barry Weingast), in Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton Root, eds., Governing for Prosperity (New Haven, 2000)
"Party and Faction in Brazil’s Imperial Parliament," in Stephen Haber, ed., Crony Capitalism and Economic Growth in Latin America (Hoover Institution Press, 2001)
