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Export-led Growth in Mexico, c. 1900–30

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An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America

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All the chapters in this book concern individual countries;1 this chapter concerns Mexico. Using countries as units of analysis, however, is neither inevitable nor unproblematic, especially for the period c. 1900–30. Latin American nation-states of that period were usually weak states,2 ruling highly imperfect nations. Though states were tending to get stronger — hence the emergence of Wolf and Hansen’s order and progress dictatorships (Wolf and Hansen, 1967, pp. 168–79) — their political and (a fortiori) economic powers were quite limited; they could repress, but not represent; their burgeoning military capacity was not matched by an equivalent capacity to mould their societies or control their economies.3 This partly reflected the familiar condition of dependency, which early twentieth-century governments could do little to mitigate.

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    Alan Knight (Professor of the History of Latin America, Fellow)

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  1. Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico

    Enrique Cárdenas (Professor of Economics and Rector) (Professor of Economics and Rector)

  2. United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL/ECLAC), USA

    José Antonio Ocampo (Executive Secretary) (Executive Secretary)

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    Rosemary Thorp (Reader in the Economics of Latin America) (Reader in the Economics of Latin America)

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Knight, A. (2000). Export-led Growth in Mexico, c. 1900–30. In: Cárdenas, E., Ocampo, J.A., Thorp, R. (eds) An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599659_5

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