The politics of property rights : political instability, credible commitments, and economic growth in Mexico, 1876-1929

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The work The politics of property rights : political instability, credible commitments, and economic growth in Mexico, 1876-1929 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The politics of property rights : political instability, credible commitments, and economic growth in Mexico, 1876-1929

Title remainder

political instability, credible commitments, and economic growth in Mexico, 1876-1929

Statement of responsibility

Stephen Haber, Noel Maurer, Armando Razo

Creator

• Haber, Stephen H., 1957-
• Haber, Stephen H., 1957-

Contributor

• Razo, Armando, 1971-
• Maurer, Noel
• Razo, Armando, 1971-

Author

• Haber, Stephen H., 1957-
• Maurer, Noel
• Razo, Armando, 1971-

Subject

• Mexico -- Economic policy
• Mexico -- Politics and government -- 19th century
• Mexico -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Right of property -- Mexico -- History

Language

eng

Summary

This book addresses a puzzle in political economy: why is it that political instability does not necessarily translate into economic stagnation or collapse? In order to address this puzzle, it advances a theory about property rights systems in many less developed countries. In this theory, governments do not have to enforce property rights as a public good. Instead, they may enforce property rights selectively (as a private good), and share the resulting rents with the group of asset holders who are integrated into the government. Focusing on Mexico, this book explains how the property rights system was constructed during the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship (1876-1911) and then explores how this property rights system either survived, or was reconstructed. The result is an analytic economic history of Mexico under both stability and instability, and a generalizable framework about the interaction of political and economic institutions

Member of

• Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online
• Political economy of institutions and decisions

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

320/.6/0972/0904

Index

index present

LC call number

HC135

LC item number

.H173 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Political economy of institutions and decisions