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The Contribution of Exports to the M exican Economy During the First Globalisation (1870–1929)
Author(s) -
Ficker Sandra Kuntz
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
australian economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.493
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1467-8446
pISSN - 0004-8992
DOI - 10.1111/aehr.12040
Subject(s) - structuralism (philosophy of science) , globalization , externality , economics , rest (music) , economy , set (abstract data type) , international trade , market economy , microeconomics , philosophy , medicine , cardiology , epistemology , computer science , programming language
This article provides an assessment of the contribution of exports to the M exican economy during the first globalisation. This implies revisiting conventional explanations based on the tradition of structuralism and dependency theory, using a new, complete set of data on M exico's foreign trade, and evaluating the direct contribution as well as the indirect benefits provided by export activities, through mechanisms that linked foreign trade to the rest of the economy. The most important among these were positive externalities, spillovers, and backward and forward linkages.