(2003) proposes an interpretation of the political economy
of the regime of Porfirio Díaz very much in the spirit of our
discussion. Haber, Klein, Maurer, and Middlebrook (2008)
extend this treatment of Mexico’s political economy into the
twentieth century. On the differential allocation of frontier
lands in North and Latin America, see Nugent and
Robinson (2010) and García-Jimeno and Robinson (2011).
Hu-DeHart (1984) discusses the deportation of the Yaqui
people in chap. 6. On the fortune of Carlos Slim and how it
was made, see Relea (2007) and Martinez (2002).
Our interpretation of comparative economic development
of the Americas builds on our own previous research with
Simon Johnson, particularly Acemoglu, Johnson, and
Robinson (2001, 2002), and has also been heavily
influenced by Coatsworth (1978, 2008) and Engerman and
Sokoloff