Political Institutions and Economic Development: Lessons from the Economic Histories of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States

Stephen Haber is the A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, where he teaches political science and history. He is also Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow of Stanford's Center for International Development, and Director of the Social Science History Institute. Prof. Haber’s most recent book, The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929 (co-authored with Armando Razo and Noel Maurer) will be released from Cambridge University Press in May 2003.