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Mexico since 1980

Part of The World Since 1980

  • Date Published: September 2008
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  • isbn: 9780511410628

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  • This book addresses two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced rule of law? The answer to those questions lies in the ways in which Mexico's long history with authoritarian government shaped its judicial, taxation, and property rights institutions. These institutions, the authors argue, cannot be reformed with the stroke of a pen. Moreover, they represent powerful constraints on the ability of the Mexican government to fund welfare-enhancing reforms, on the ability of firms and households to write contracts, and on the ability of citizens to enforce their basic rights.

    • Draws on the latest research in social science to provide a fast-paced, non-technical, but novel, study of Mexico in the past quarter century
    • Details economic, political, and social change since 1980
    • The authors highlight key themes in Mexico's development relating to the transformation of financial underdevelopment, health, education and welfare
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    • Date Published: September 2008
    • format: Adobe eBook Reader
    • isbn: 9780511410628
    • contains: 41 b/w illus.
    • availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
  • Table of Contents

    1. The second Mexican revolution: economic, political, and social change since 1980
    2. Mexico before 1982: the political economy of authoritarian rule
    3. The causes and consequences of free trade
    4. The Mexican banking system: the politics and economics of financial underdevelopment
    5. The transformation of Mexican politics
    6. Health, education, and welfare in Mexico since 1980
    7. Democracy and development in Mexico: future challenges and the legacy of authoritarian rule.

  • Authors

    Stephen Haber, Stanford University, California
    Stephen Haber is Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, and A. A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He is also Senior Fellow of the Stanford Center for International Development, Director of Stanford's Program in Social Science History, and a Research Economist of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Mexican economic history and political economy.

    Herbert S. Klein, Columbia University, New York
    Herbert S. Klein is Professor of History, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. He is also the Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books and articles and is the co-author most recently of Brazil since 1980.

    Noel Maurer
    Noel Maurer is Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School in the Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Maurer was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. The author of several books and numerous articles on Mexican economic history, Maurer's primary interest is in how governments make credible commitments to protect property rights, with a particular focus on Latin America. His current research focuses on the question of whether foreign governments and international institutions can improve property rights systems inside sovereign countries.

    Kevin J. Middlebrook, University of London
    Kevin J. Middlebrook is Reader in Latin American Politics at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. He is author of The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico (1995) and editor of, among other works, Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico (2004).

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