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Author-Name: Rafael Dobado González
Author-Email: rdobado@ccee.ucm.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Departamento de Historia e Instituciones Económicas II (Historia Económica). Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Workplace-Homepage: https://www.ucm.es/deaeh
Author-Name: Aurora Gómez Galvarriato
Author-Email: aurora.gomez@cide.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: CIDE. Division of Economics
Author-Name: Jeffrey G. Williamson
Author-Email: jwilliam@fas.harvard.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics Harvard University Cambridge MA 02138 USA and CEPR and NBER
Title: Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
Abstract: Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those 
	critical 150 years when the economic gap between the industrial core and the primary-product-producing periphery widened to 
	such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to mid-century Mexico did better on this score than did most countries around the 
	periphery. This paper explores the sources of Mexican exceptionalism with de-industrialization. It decomposes those sources 
	into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery, and to 
	those attributable to domestic forces specific to Mexico. It uses a neo-Ricardian model (with non-tradable foodstuffs) to 
	implement the decomposition, and advocates a price dual approach, and develops a new price and wage data base 1750-1878. There 
	were three forces at work that account for Mexican exceptionalism: first, the terms of trade and Dutch disease effects were 
	much weaker; second, Mexico maintained secular wage competitiveness with the core; and third, Mexico had the autonomy to 
	devise effective ways to foster industry. The first appears to have been the most important.
Abstract: En este artículo se analizan las fuentes de la excepcionalidad de México con una desindustrialización. Descompone las fuentes 
	en las que la productividad atribuibles a los acontecimientos en el núcleo de las fuerzas de la globalización y de la conexión 
	básica a la periferia, y los atribuibles a las fuerzas específicas de Mexico. Se utiliza un modelo neo-ricardiano (con los 
	productos alimenticios no comercializables) para la aplicación de la descomposición, y aboga por un enfoque de doble precio, 
	se desarrolla una nueva base de datos de precios y salarios entre 1750-1878.
Classification-JEL: F1, N7, O2
Keywords: Comercio, Historia económica, México, Desarrollo económico.
Length: 67 pages 
Creation-Date: 2006 
Number: 06-03
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