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BL
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1003453
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b757823
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| Main Entry
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Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo
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| Title & Author
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Mexico : : why a few are rich and the people poor /\ Ramón Eduardo Ruiz.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
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| ISBN
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0520947525
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: 1282732544
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: 6612732547
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: 9780520947528
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: 9781282732544
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: 9786612732546
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0520262352
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0520262360
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9780520262355
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9780520262362
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Economic development-- Mexico.
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Poverty-- Mexico.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economic History.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Comparative.
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Economic development.
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Economic history.
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Economic policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Economic Conditions.
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Poverty.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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Mexico, Economic conditions.
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Mexico, Economic policy.
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Mexico.
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| Dewey Classification
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330.972
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HC135.R777 2010eb
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