Revolution in Development uncovers the surprising influence of
post-revolutionary Mexico on the twentieth century’s most important
international economic institutions. Drawing on extensive archival
research in Mexico, the United States, and Great Britain, Thornton
meticulously traces how Mexican officials repeatedly rallied Third
World leaders to campaign for representation in global organizations
and redistribution through multilateral institutions. By decentering
the United States and Europe in the history of global economic
governance, Revolution in Development shows how Mexican
economists, diplomats, and politicians fought for more than five
decades to reform the rules and institutions of the global capitalist
economy. In so doing, the book demonstrates, Mexican officials shaped
not only their own domestic economic prospects, they shaped the
contours of the project of international development itself.
