University of California Press
has published a new book on the role of Mexico in the history of global
economic governance.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Revolution in
Development uncovers the surprising influence of postrevolutionary
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christy Thornton is Assistant
Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: How Could Mexico
Matter?
1 • Recognition and
Representation: The Mexican Revolution and Multilateral Governance
2 • A New Legal and Philosophic
Conception of Credit: Redefining Debt in the 1930s
3 • A Solidarity of Interests:
Mexico and the Inter-American Bank
4 • Voice and Vote: Mexico’s
Postwar Vision at Bretton Woods
5 • Within Limits of Justice: The
Economic Charter for the Americas and Its Critics
6 • Organizing the Terms of
Trade: Mexico and the International Trade Organization
7 • The Price of Success:
Navigating the New Development Order during the Mexican Miracle
8 • A Mexican International
Economic Order? The Echeverría Synthesis
Conclusion: Hegemony and
Reaction: The United States in Opposition
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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