Managing Mexico

Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism

Autor: Sarah L. Babb

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Princeton University Press

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Just one generation ago, lawyers dominated Mexico's political elite, and Mexican economists were a r...

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Autor

Sarah L. Babb

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2004

strony

320

EAN

9780691117935

ISBN

0691117934

Enbook ID

04640821

Wydawca

Princeton University Press

Waga

500

Wymiary

234 x 158 x 20

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Just one generation ago, lawyers dominated Mexico's political elite, and Mexican economists were a relatively powerless group of mostly leftist nationalists. Today, in contrast, the country is famous, or perhaps infamous, for being run by American-trained neoclassical economists. In 1993, the "Economist" suggested that Mexico had the most economically literate government in the world - a trend that has continued since Mexico's transition to multi-party democracy. To the accompanying fanfare of U.S. politicians and foreign investors, these technocrats embarked on the ambitious program of privatization, deregulation, budget-cutting, and opening to free trade - all in keeping with the prescriptions of mainstream American economics.This book chronicles the evolution of economic expertise in Mexico over the course of the twentieth century, showing how internationally credentialed experts came to set the agenda for the Mexican economics profession and to dominate Mexican economic policymaking. It also reveals how the familiar language of Mexico's new experts overlays a professional structure that is still alien to most American economists. Sarah Babb mines diverse sources - including Mexican undergraduate theses, historical documents, and personal interviews - to address issues relevant not only to Latin American studies, but also to the sociology of professions, political sociology, economic sociology, and neoinstitutionalist sociology. She demonstrates with skill how peculiarly national circumstances shape what economic experts think and do. At the same time, Babb shows how globalization can erode national systems of economic expertise in developing countries, creating a new class of 'global experts.'

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