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"Explores Mexico's experience with import-subsitution industrialization through the eyes of the Mexican business class. Discusses the agendas of Mexico's major business organizations and evaluates their position on state intervention, state-labor relations, and other issues"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Los de abjo treats what is perhaps the saddest period in modern Mexican history, a period of aimless slaughter when a whole nation was plunged into strife by leaders who had few clear ideas of what they were striving for. The reader shares the same disillusionment that the author himself must have felt as he met leader after leader whose revolutionary zeal was merely a disguise for base passions and desires.

The book edited by researchers Thomas Calvo and Paulina Machuca - both members of the project "Proyecto Vencer la distancia" (Overcoming the distance) - comprises the participation of fourteen specialists in the discipline of social sciences. "If the Philippines and Mexico had had very close relationships in the two and a half centuries that the Manila Galleon was sailing (1565-1815), the relations diluted when Mexico chose Independence and the Philippines continued under Spanish domain until 1898. It was precisely these years of disagreement that we were interested in: like all the periods...

En las últimas décadas el tema del desarrollo social ha vuelto a la agenda de la investigación y las políticas públicas, despertando un intenso debate teórico y empírico en torno a su significado y al alcance de las políticas y mecanismos con los que se le busca impulsar. La concepción de desarrollo social se apoya en una mayor comprensión no sólo de la diversidad y complejidad de las necesidades de los seres humanos y de las sociedades que éstos construyen, sino también de la intrincada red de interacciones que mantienen con el entorno ambiental, y en una visión de futuro que...