Description
Book SynopsisThis text assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Mexico and its implications for the broadening of hemispheric economic co-operation. It provides alternative explanations for the anti-NAFTA mood that prevails among important sectors and constituencies in the USA.
Trade Review“Carol Wise’s collection . . . is a major contribution to the intellectual and political debate about the political and economic forces explaining the transition from state-led inward-looking models of development to market-led outward-looking paradigms in Mexico and to some extent Latin America. . . . Carol Wise has collected a fine and well-balanced selection of topics dealing with regional integration and its impact in Mexican economic and political life. No doubt this book will become a major reference and source of inspiration for both the specialist and non-specialist.”
—Isidro Morales Canadian Journal of Political Science
“This is a very good book on many levels. It is chock-full of data and yet remains accessible to the non-economist; it presents sound empirical research on the topic and yet provides sufficient background information to make it appropriate for the undergraduate; and it escapes the facile dichotomous pro-NAFTA/anti-NAFTA polemics of the past while raising critically important policy questions regarding the future of Mexico and hemispheric integration.”
—Stephen D. Morris South Eastern Latin Americanist (SELA)
“Carol Wise’s well-edited The Post-NAFTA Political Economy: Mexico and the Western Hemisphere has the broadest range and the most synthetic approach of any book under review here.”
—Jonathan Fox Latin American Research Review
