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Author Thornton, Christy, author.

Title Revolution in development : Mexico and the governance of the global economy / Christy Thornton
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (301 pages)
Contents Introduction: How could Mexico matter? -- Recognition and representation : the Mexican Revolution and multilateral governance -- A new legal and philosophic conception of credit : redefining debt in the 1930s -- A solidarity of interests : Mexico and the Inter-American Bank -- Voice and vote : Mexico's postwar vision at Bretton Woods -- Within limits of justice : the Economic Charter of the Americas and its critics -- Organizing the terms of trade : Mexico and the International Trade Organization -- The price of success : navigating the new development order during the Mexican Miracle -- A Mexican international economic order? : the Echeverría Synthesis -- Conclusion: Hegemony and reaction : the United States in opposition
Summary "Revolution in Development uncovers the surprising influence of post-revolutionary Mexico on the twentieth century's most important international economic institutions. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico, the United States, and Great Britain, Christy Thornton meticulously traces how Mexican officials repeatedly rallied Third World leaders to campaign for representation in global organizations and redistribution through multilateral institutions. By decentering the United States and Europe in the history of global economic governance, Revolution in Development shows how Mexican economists, diplomats, and politicians fought for more than five decades to reform the rules and institutions of the global capitalist economy. In so doing, the book demonstrates, Mexican officials shaped not only their own domestic economic prospects but also the contours of the project of international development itself"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 28, 2020)
Subject International economic relations.
HISTORY / World
Economic policy
International economic relations
SUBJECT Mexico -- Economic policy -- History -- 20th century
Subject Mexico
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020021295
ISBN 0520969634
9780520969636