Industry and Underdevelopment

This study of the formative years of industrialization in Mexico focuses on the forces -- economic, political, and technological -- that have thwarted Mexican efforts to become a competitive member of the international economic community. Book jacket.

Stephen Haber is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. He is the author of How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914; Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940; and The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929 (with Armando Razo and Noel Maurer).