Assessing Collective Action in Road-Building in Costa Rica During the Nineteenth Century. A Study of Roads and Bridges Between the Valle Central and the Pacific Coast
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Statut: | Versión publicada |
| Date de publication: | 2022 |
| Description: | The article analyzes collective action in road and bridge building in Costa Rica during the nineteenth century. Using a rational choice framework and the public goods theory, it addresses the social and economic processes that encouraged cooperation among peasants in developing the road network between the Valle Central and the Pacific port city of Puntarenas. It argues that the increasing commercialization of agriculture at the turn of the nineteenth century stimulated voluntary collective action among peasants, as well as institutional change to prevent free-riding. |
| Pays: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Langue: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/53103 |
| Accès en ligne: | https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/anuario/article/view/53103 |
| Mots-clés: | economic history rational choice collective goods institutions, roads bridges historia económica elección racional bienes públicos instituciones caminos puentes |