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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. ...
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 ...
Revolución en la comercialización y producción de textiles en México durante el porfiriato
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
In the United States and Europe, the coming of modern transportation and comummications brought about a major transformation in the institutions of capitalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, when enterprises ...
La evolución de la participación laboral de las mujeres en la industria: una visión de largo plazo
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2004)
Este trabajo estudia la evolución de la participación laboral de las mujeres en la industria en México en el siglo XX. Se encuentra una relación en forma de U entre ingreso per cápita y participación laboral en el sector ...
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 ...
The political economy of protectionism: the evolution of labor productivity, international competitiveness, and tariffs in the Mexican textile industry, 1900-1950
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2001)
This paper compares prices, costs, and productivity levels c.1911 of a Mexican textile mil with those of mills in the United States and Great Britain and studies the evolution of textile tariff protection. Surprisingly by ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...