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Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

ECONOMIC HISTORY OF MEXICO II

Objectives
Analyze the antecedents of the economic history of Mexico so that the student may have a clear understanding of the evolution of the Mexican economy. At the end of the course the student will be able to identify and comprehend the economic/historical explanations regarding the contemporary Mexican reality.

Program
I. Insertion of Mexico into the World Economy
1.1 International context
1.2 Depletion of the Import Substitution
Industrialization model
1.3 External debt

II. 1980’s: The Lost Decade
2.1 Adjustments of the International Monetary
Fund
2.2 Brady Plan: an attempt to restructure
external debt
2.3 World Bank and its programs for structural
change

III. Commercial Opening in Mexico
3.1 Effective nominal protection in Mexico
before commercial opening
3.2 The planning of commercial opening
3.3 Consequences of the industrial apparatus
and commercial scale
3.4 Unilateral commercial opening of Mexico:
unsuccessful efforts

IV. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
4.1 Regionalization vs. Globalization
4.2 Objectives of the free trade agreement
4.3 Results of the trade agreement

V. Other Economic Policy Measures
5.1 Privatization of private enterprises
5.2 Deregulation of economic activity
5.3 Commission for Economic Competition

VI. Alternate Propositions
6.1 Pending issues of NAFTA
6.2 Productive transformation with equity

Bibliography:

Barkin, D. Un Desarrollo Distorsionado: la Integración de México a la Economía
Mundial. Ed. Siglo XXI. México, 1991.
Blanco H.: La Apertura comercial en México., Siglo XXI. 1994.
Castañeda J., Los Compromisos con la Nación. Plaza & Janes., 1996.
González Casanova, P., México hoy, Ed. Siglo XXI. México, 1994.
Luna Alvarado Ma. De J., Transformación Productiva o Reconversión Industrial
en México? Informe No 10. División Conjunta CEPAL/ONUDI. Naciones Unidas. Agosto 1991.
Globalización: Algunas Lecciones para México, en Estrategia. Centro de Estudios
Estratégicos, ITESM Campus Monterrey. 1994.
La Eficiencia del Sector Manufacturero Mexicano., Mimeo., 1994
SHCP: Reestructuración de la Deuda Externa. 1992.
La privatización de empresas públicas.
SECOFI, El Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica.