Description: Downsizing The State : Privatization And The Limits Of Neoliberal Reform In Mexico, Paperback by Macleod, Dag, ISBN 0271026987, ISBN-13 9780271026985, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Beginning in 1983, the Mexican government implemented one of the most extensive programs of market-oriented reform in the developing world. Downsizing the State examines a key element of this reform program: the privatization of public firms. Drawing upon interviews with government officials, business executives, and labor leaders as well as data from government archives and corporate documents, MacLeod highlights the difficulties of linking market reforms to improved public welfare. Privatization failed to live up to its promise of raising living standards or decentralizing the economy. Indeed, privatization actually increased the concentration of wealth in Mexico while redirecting the economy toward foreign markets. These findings contribute to theoretical debates regarding state autonomy and the embeddedness of economic action. MacLeod calls into question the autonomy of the Mexican state in its privatization program. He shows that the creation of markets where public firms once dominated has involved both the destruction of social relations and the construction of new relations and institutions to regulate the market.
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Book Title: Downsizing The State : Privatization And The Limits Of Neoliberal
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Downsizing the State : Privatization and the Limits of Neoliberal Reform in Mexico
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: Latin America / Mexico, Railroads / History, Aviation / Commercial, Telecommunications, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Government & Business
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 18.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Dag Macleod
Subject Area: Transportation, Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
