| The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932 Contributor(s): Maurer, Noel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804742855 ISBN-13: 9780804742856 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2002 Annotation: " This outstanding work in Mexican economic history will contribute in a major way to changing the way the Porfirian regime and the Mexican revolution are understood by showing how financial markets, institutions, and organizations played a major role not only in the economic life but in the political life of Mexico during those turbulent decades." -- Carlos Marichal, El Colegio de Me xico " This work, one of the best, most insightful on Mexico' s economic history to appear in years, sets a high standard for others." -- E. Pang, Colorado School of Mines |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - Business & Economics | Banks & Banking - Business & Economics | Finance - General |
| Dewey: 332.097 |
| LCCN: 2002003103 |
| Series: Social Science History |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.34" W x 10.3" (1.17 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mexican |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Facing financial chaos, Porfirio Diaz's strategy in the 1880s was to create a bank with a legal monopoly over lending to the government and to enforce elites' property rights in order to get their support. This book shows how Mexican leaders, even after the Mexican Revolution, failed to alter these basic economic and political policies, resulting in a continuing high level of financial and industrial concentration. |