La economía mexicana: Política y desarrollo

"Examines Madero's economic ideas and his approach to various economic issues, including labor-management relations, agrarian reform, and fiscal policy. Argues that Madero's economic policies fell somewhere between 19th-century Liberalism and a more modern interventionism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Con las fotos inigualables de Nacho L pez, recobramos Para la memoria c mo era la vida de la ciudad de M xico en los a os cincuenta y principios de los sesenta. la urbe captada por la lente de L pez exhibe a sus hijos, ciudadanos capitalinos qu micamente puros que la viven de d a y de noche, gast ndola, sufri ndola y rehaci ndola Para que no los desconozca.

Los de abjo treats what is perhaps the saddest period in modern Mexican history, a period of aimless slaughter when a whole nation was plunged into strife by leaders who had few clear ideas of what they were striving for. The reader shares the same disillusionment that the author himself must have felt as he met leader after leader whose revolutionary zeal was merely a disguise for base passions and desires.

Deuda externa, tráfico de drogas (y el consumo estadunidense), migración y política exterior, son sólo algunos de los problemas compartidos por ambos países y motivo de análisis en este libro. Autores mexicanos y norteamericanos abordan las relaciones bilaterales, revisan los antecedentes de cada problema y hacen interesantes recomendaciones.