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- catalog abstract ""Beginning in 1983, the Mexican government implemented one of the most extensive programs of market-oriented reform in the developing world. Downsizing the State examines a key element of this reform program: the privatization of public firms." "After providing a broad overview of the growth and decline of public ownership in Mexico, Dag MacLeod analyzes the process of privatization in three key industries - aviation, telecommunications, and railroads. Drawing upon interviews with government officials, business executives, and labor leaders as well data from government archives and corporate documents, MacLeod highlights the difficulties of linking market reforms to improved public welfare. Privatization failed to live up to its promise of raising living standards or decentralizing the economy. Indeed, privatization actually increased the concentration of wealth in Mexico while redirecting the economy toward foreign markets." "Downsizing the State is a theoretically innovative account of how actors and institutions may construct capitalist markets so that they actually resemble the asocial ideal of neoclassical economics: facilitating exchange among actors while denying the obligations and commitments that attach to other types of social relations."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13194051.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""After providing a broad overview of the growth and decline of public ownership in Mexico, Dag MacLeod analyzes the process of privatization in three key industries - aviation, telecommunications, and railroads. Drawing upon interviews with government officials, business executives, and labor leaders as well data from government archives and corporate documents, MacLeod highlights the difficulties of linking market reforms to improved public welfare. Privatization failed to live up to its promise of raising living standards or decentralizing the economy. Indeed, privatization actually increased the concentration of wealth in Mexico while redirecting the economy toward foreign markets."".
- catalog description ""Beginning in 1983, the Mexican government implemented one of the most extensive programs of market-oriented reform in the developing world. Downsizing the State examines a key element of this reform program: the privatization of public firms."".
- catalog description ""Downsizing the State is a theoretically innovative account of how actors and institutions may construct capitalist markets so that they actually resemble the asocial ideal of neoclassical economics: facilitating exchange among actors while denying the obligations and commitments that attach to other types of social relations."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-289) and index.".
- catalog description "Privatization and competing perspectives on economic organization -- Public ownership and the rise of state-led development -- Privatization and the demise of state-led development -- The turbulent privatizations of Aeroméxico and Mexicana de Aviacíon -- Positive-sum games and the sale of Telmex -- The transformation and sale of the Mexican National Railroad -- Economic transformation and the limits of neoliberal reform -- Appendix.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 306 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0271023651 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Mexico.".
- catalog subject "338.972/05 21".
- catalog subject "Airlines Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Airlines Privatization Mexico.".
- catalog subject "HD4013 .M32 2004".
- catalog subject "Privatization Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Railroads Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Railroads Privatization Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Telecommunication Mexico.".
- catalog subject "Telecommunication Privatization Mexico.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Privatization and competing perspectives on economic organization -- Public ownership and the rise of state-led development -- Privatization and the demise of state-led development -- The turbulent privatizations of Aeroméxico and Mexicana de Aviacíon -- Positive-sum games and the sale of Telmex -- The transformation and sale of the Mexican National Railroad -- Economic transformation and the limits of neoliberal reform -- Appendix.".
- catalog title "Downsizing the state : privatization and the limits of neoliberal reform in Mexico / Dag MacLeod.".
- catalog type "text".