The orthodoxy in Mexico

Abstract

This work is part of a broader research that aims to explore and describe some of the events that allowed the development of economic orthodoxy in Mexico and Mexican liberalism that shaped the twentieth century. It supports the hypothesis that the formation of this current was a conscious act of a sector of the Mexican economic elite, to create an alternative to what has been called the current Mexican economic nationalism which came along with the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and consolidated with the social and economic reforms promoted by President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940). This opposition used the works of two important liberals from the era as an inspiration: Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek. In this work we will take a look at their visits to Mexico and their reunions with several bussiness man.