Biblioteca / 1980-1989
Sylvia Ann Hewlett – Richard S. Weinert, editors. Brazil and Mexico. Patterns in Late Development.
Filadelfia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982.
349 páginas.
Contents
1 – Introduction: The Characteristics and Consequences of Late Development in Brazil and Mexico / SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT – RICHARD S. WEINERT
The state
Foreign capital
Demographic factors
Labor organizations
Social structures
Social equity
Political rights
2 – Mexican and Brazilian Economic Development: Legacies, Patterns, and Performance / DOUGLAS H. GRAHAM
Historical legacies
The contemporary period: comparative patterns and performance
Future prospects
3 – Popular Sector Incorporation and Political Supremacy: Regime Evolution in Brazil and Mexico / RUTH BERINS COLLIER
State and regime
Popular sector incorporation
Initial incorporation in Mexico and Brazil
The party heritage of initial incorporation
Economic crisis and political opposition in the 1950s and 1960s
Conclusion
4 – Foreign Investment and Dependent Development: Comparing Brazil and Mexico / PETER EVANS – GARY GEREFFI
Dependence, development, and DFI: a framework for analysis
Four phases of DFI in Brazil and Mexico
DFI in Brazil and Mexico: an empirical analysis
Conclusions
Appendix of tables
5 – The State as Banker and Entrepreneur: The Last Resort Character of the Mexican State’s Economic Intervention, 1917-1970 / DOUGLAS BENNETT – KENNETH SHARPE
Gerschenkron: the state and the requisites of late industrialization
The period from 1917 to 1940
The period from 1940 to 1970
Some theoretical conclusions
6 – The State and Organized Labor m Brazil and Mexico / KENNETH PAUL ERICKSON – KEVIN J. MIDDLEBROOK
The development of the interventionist state in Brazil and Mexico
State controls and union activity
The future: continuity or change?
7 – Income Distribution Trends in Mexico and the Kuznets Curves / DAVID FELIX
Trends in Mexican size distribution of income, 1885-1975
Growth-equity theorizing and the Mexican case
Appendix
8 – Poverty and Inequality in Brazil / SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT
The Brazilian data
The theoretical debate within Brazil
A reinterpretation