When the State is untrustworthy: Public finance and private banking in porfirian Mexico

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1087-1107

  Maurer, Noel ^a   Gomberg, Andrei ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PUBLIC SPENDING; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP;

EID: 12944294327     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022050704043098     Document Type: Article

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