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Author Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo, author.

Title Mexico : why a few are rich and the people poor / Ramón Eduardo Ruiz.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ramblings on Mexican underdevelopment -- El Mexicano -- The legacy -- Free traders and capitalists -- Colonialism's thumb -- Lost opportunity -- Internal market -- False miracle -- Death of a dream -- NAFTA.
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Summary Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring inequalities, uncovers the fundamental role of race and class in perpetuating poverty, and sheds new light on the contemporary Mexican reality. Throughout, Ruiz traces a legacy of dependency on outsiders, and c.
Subject Mexico -- Economic conditions.
Mexico -- Economic policy.
Economic development -- Mexico.
Poverty -- Mexico.
Economic history.
Economic development.
Economic policy.
Mexico.
Poverty.
Social sciences.
Business.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Economic development. (OCoLC)fst00901785
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Economic policy. (OCoLC)fst00902025
Poverty. (OCoLC)fst01074093
Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
Other Form: Print version: Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo. Mexico. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520262355 (DLC) 2010008108 (OCoLC)569481184
Standard No. 9786612732546
ISBN 9780520947528 (electronic bk.)
0520947525 (electronic bk.)
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