Edward Paul Beatty

Edward Wentworth Beatty

Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty, GBE (October 16, 1877 March 23, 1943) was a Canadian lawyer, university chancellor, and businessman. He was president of ...

Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico

In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many goods and services. Rapid technological change supported economic growth and also brought cultural change and social disl...

The Big Cage

The Springs of Business Activity (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Springs of Business ActivityNor am I sure that Utopia would make us any happier. It might take away some of the misery of life, but it would rob it of its color. Eliminate effort and you drain the spring of life. It is not attain ment so much as the striving for it that lends zest t...

Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico Before 1911

Mexico began its long and often painful transition from an agricultural and rural society to one largely industrial and urban during the late “Porfiriato,” the period between 1890 and 1910. Challenging the standard view of the Porfirian state as dominated by personalist politics, foreign financial i...