“This outstanding work in Mexican economic history will contribute in a major way to changing the way the Porfirian regime and the Mexican revolution are understood by showing how financial markets, institutions, and organizations played a major role not only in the economic life but in the political life of Mexico during those turbulent decades.”—Carlos Marichal, El Colegio de México
“This work, one of the best, most insightful on Mexico’s economic history to appear in years, sets a high standard for others.”—E. Pang, Colorado School of Mines