A mystery unveiled: The Mexican economy in the first fifty years after Independence (1821- 1870). An approach from foreign trade accounts
To use foreign trade statistics as a window to analyze some important aspects of Mexico’s economy and society during the half century after independence.
Project Description
I intend to use trade information in order to understand the features of the Mexican economy and the consumption patterns of Mexican society and the way in which they evolved in the initial period of its life as an independent country.
Selected Publications
‘How Industrialised was Mexico by 1929? A Small but Necessary Correction to Mexico’s National accounts”, Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 35:1, March 2017, pp. 1–18, http://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610916000197.
“Mexico’s Economic History: Much more than Cliometrics and Dependency Theory”, in Francesco Boldizzoni and Pat Hudson (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History, 2016, pp. 343-360.
“The Contribution of Exports to the Mexican Economy during the First Globalisation (1870-
1929)”, Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, July 2014.