Mexico : why a few are rich and the people poor / Ramón Eduardo Ruiz.

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Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780520947528
0520947525
1282732544
9781282732544
9786612732546
6612732547

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mexico.DDC classification:

330.972 22

LOC classification:

HC135 .R777 2010eb

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Contents:

Ramblings on Mexican underdevelopment -- El Mexicano -- The legacy -- Free traders and capitalists -- Colonialism's thumb -- Lost opportunity -- Internal market -- False miracle -- Death of a dream -- NAFTA.

Summary: Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring inequalities, uncovers the fundamental role of race and class in perpetuating poverty, and sheds new light on the contemporary Mexican reality. Throughout, Ruiz traces a legacy of dependency on outsiders, and c.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring inequalities, uncovers the fundamental role of race and class in perpetuating poverty, and sheds new light on the contemporary Mexican reality. Throughout, Ruiz traces a legacy of dependency on outsiders, and c.

English.

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