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From company stores to consumer's cooperatives and the worker's bank in the Orizaba valley textile milles
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2007)
The study of the company stores of the Orizaba textile mills during the Porfiriato departs from the traditional view on Porfirian company stores. It indicates that workers were not fully paid in script but received an ...
Networks and entrepreneurship: the modernization of textile production and distribution in porfirian Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2007)
As in other parts of the world, in Mexico, the coming of modern transportation and communications and technological changes in manufacturing machinery brought about during the late 19th century major changes in the production ...
To open or not to open: the causes, timing, and consequences of protectionism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2007)
Recent history give us evidence of the different timing and results of the
opening up of several economies. When and why do governments open up
their economies, and why do domestic firms survive or not to the opening
up ...
The Mexican cotton textile industry: and overview
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2008)
The history of the Mexican textile industry is long and exceptional. In this
paper we provide an overview of the development of the industry from
colonial times to the Porfiriato. Five conditions explain Mexico’s ...
Larger menus and entrepreneurial appetite: an empirical investigation of organization choice in Mexico, 1886-1910
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
Do countries need a large menu of organizational forms? Does the flexibility
of a larger organizational menu provide advantages for businesses? This
paper explores these questions by studying the choice of organizational ...
La Revolución Mexicana y la creación y disolución de las empresas
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2007)
El presente trabajo es una primera aproximación sobre el impacto que la Revolución Mexicana tuvo en la economía. Utilizando los registros notariales de contratos de empresas mexicanas durante el periodo revolucionario ...
La divergencia económica entre México y España: 1950-2000
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
The Mexican and Spanish economies diverged in the second part of the 20th Century. This process can only be explained if we take into account long term structural causes, short term policy issues and even fortunate and ...
Globalization, de-industrialization and Mexican exceptionalism, 1750-1879
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those critical 150 years when the economic gap between the industrial core and the primary-product-producing ...
Public finance, foreign creditors, and the costs of the Mexican Revolution
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2007)
In this paper we study the impact that the Mexican Revolution had on Mexico’s economy by looking at the effects of political instability on the public finances and the relationship of the government and its foreign creditors. ...