Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective
Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
ISBN13: 9780195371161
ISBN10: 019537116X
Hardback, 328 pages
Description
This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language
treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty
years. Drawing on several years of in-depth research, Juan Carlos
Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, two of the foremost experts on the Mexican
economy, examine Mexico's current development policies and problems
from a historical perspective. They review long-term trends in the
Mexican economy and analyze past episodes of radical shifts in
development strategy and in the role of markets and the state. This
book provides an overview of Mexico's economic development since
Independence that compares the successive periods of stagnation and
growth that alternately have characterized Mexico's economic history.
It gives special attention to developments since 1940, and it presents
a re-evaluation of Mexico's development policies during the State-led
industrialization period from 1940 to 1982 as well as during the more
recent market reform process. This reevaluation is critical of the
dominant trend in economic literature and is revisionist in arguing
that, in particular, the market reforms undertaken by successive
Mexican governments since 1983 have not addressed the fundamental
obstacles to economic growth. Development and Growth in the Mexican
Economy also details the country's pioneering role in launching NAFTA,
its membership in the OECD, and its radical macroeconomic reforms.
Carefully argued and meticulously researched, the book presents a
wide-ranging, authoritative study that not only pinpoints problems,
but also suggests solutions for removing obstacles to economic
stability and pointing the Mexican economy toward the road to
recovery.
Reviews
"This book provides our first authoritative survey of Mexico's
economic history over the past two hundred years. The authors provide
an extremely accessible and comprehensive account, and they provide a
particularly incisive evaluation of Mexico's recent economic
performance. This book will surely reopen debate and provoke further
research on the period since 1940. Particularly commendable is their
consistent concern with the stubborn persistence of poverty and
inequality in Mexico. This book provides our best account yet of this
story as it engages ongoing debates about Mexico's--and Latin
America's--economic past and present."
--Edward Beatty, University of
Notre Dame "One of the most comprehensive overviews of Mexico's economic history
since Independence, Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A
Historical Perspective provides a thoughtful reinterpretation of
Mexico's economic development since 1940. all readers will learn from
the well-argued and empirically supported new insights.
It will
undoubtedly become a standard resource on the economic history of
Mexico."
--Nora Lustig, Shapiro Visiting Professor of International
Affairs, George Washington University, and Research Associate, El
Colegio de Mexico "Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy provides a useful and
sometimes provocative overview of the Mexican economy over the last
two centuries. History and economics are interwoven to provide a
well-informed book of interest to university teachers and students.
The debates on the interaction of Mexican economy and polity
complement the historical overview and make this book attractive for
university courses."
--Carlos Marichal, El Colegio de Mexico
"This book proposes an interpretation of Mexican economic history over
the past two centuries based on a simple but strong institutional
thesis: growth has been fast when there has been a 'developmental
consensus' but has slowed down otherwise. It is a must-read for
Mexican and Latin American specialists but particularly for
institutional economists."
--Jose Antonio Ocampo, Professor, Columbia
University, and former Executive Secretary of the United Nations
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
About the Author(s)
- Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid , an economist at ECLAC-UN, specializes in
development and economic growth, mainly of Mexico and Latin America.
He has published articles in academic journals such as World
Development , Development and Change , CEPAL-Review , Metroeconomica ,
Investigacion Economica , Journal of Post Keynesian Economics ,
International Review of Applied Economics , Harvard Review of Latin
America , International Journal of Political Economy , Nueva Sociedad
, Revista Mexicana de Sociologia , and Economia Mexicana . He is a
member of the Refereeing Board of El Trimestre Economico and of the
Editorial Board of EconomiaUNAM .
- Jaime Ros is professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame
and fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He
specializes in development economics with special reference to Mexico
and Latin America. His most recent book is Development Theory and the
Economics of Growth . His articles have appeared in the Cambridge
Journal of Economics , World Development , Journal of Development
Studies , The Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies , El
Trimestre Economico , and Desarrollo Economico , as well as other
scholarly journals and edited books.
Informes:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Developmental/Regional/?view=usa&ci=9780195371161;
Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid (JuanCarlos.MORENO@cepal.org), Jaime Ros Bosch
Ros.1@nd.edu)
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