DRAFT Do not quote 29-01-2010 Two Centuries of Latin American Productivity Growth: Chile 1833- 2005 JOSÉ DÍAZ GERT WAGNER Financial support from Millenium Science Initiative, Ministry of Planning of Chile is gratefully acknowledged. We thank members of EH Clio Lab and members of Pontificia Universidad Católcia de Chile Institute of Economics for their comments. We also benefitted from discussion of a previous draft at the CLADHE II preparation meeting (Santiago, Cepal, Dec 17th 2009). The views expressed herein are those of the authors.