Managing Mexico

This text chronicles the evolution of economic expertise in Mexico over the course of the 20th century, showing how international experts came to dominate Mexican economic policymaking. It also reveals how Mexico's new experts overlays a structure that is alien to most American economists.

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Just one generation ago, lawyers dominated Mexico's political elite, and Mexican economists were a relatively powerless group of mostly leftist nationalists. Today, the country is famous, or perhaps infamous, for being run by American-trained neoclassical economists. This book chronicles the evolution of economic expertise in Mexico over the course of the twentieth century, showing how internationally credentialed experts came to set the agenda for the Mexican economics profession. It also reveals how the familiar language of Mexico's new experts overlays a professional structure that is still alien to most American economists.