Political instability
Economic growth
Regulation of banks and financial markets
Industrial development
Cases: Mexico, Brazil, and the United States

Research fields: comparative politics and economic history.

Social Science History Institute, Director
Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Stanford Center for International Development

University Fellow, Stanford University, 1993-95.
Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford University, 1992.
Hubert Herring Award (Best Dissertation), Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, 1986.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1979.

Editorial Boards:
Journal of the Historical Society, 1999--.
Social Science History, 1988--.
Hispanic American Historical Review, 1998--.
História Econômica e História de Empresas, 1997--.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 1997--.
The Journal of Economic History, 1994-1997.
Stanford University Press, 1993-96.

Political Science 346S: Logic of Authoritarian Government
Political Science 440B: Political Economy of Development

Current Book Projects

Jeffrey L. Bortz and Stephen Haber eds., Institutional Change and Economic Performance: A New Economic History of Mexico. Volume of 9 papers currently being edited and will be submitted to Stanford University Press fall 1999.

Stephen Haber, Armando Razo, and Noel Maurer, The Political Economy of Instability:  Political Institutions and Economic Performance in Revolutionary Mexico.   

The Political Economy of Institutional Change and Economic Growth: Banks, Financial Markets, and Industrial Development in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, 1820-1940. 

Books

(Editor) Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America (Hoover Institution Press, forthcoming 2000).

(Editor) How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the  Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914 (Stanford  University Press, 1997). Translated into Spanish asCómo se Rezagó la América Latina: Ensayos Sobre las Historias Económicas de Brasil y México, 1800-1914 (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999).

Industry and Underdevelopment: The  Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940 (Stanford University  Press, 1989). Second, paperback edition released by Stanford  University Press, 1995. Translated into Spanish as Industria y  subdesarrollo: La industrialización de México, 1890-1940  (Mexico: Editorial Alianza, 1992).

James W. Wilkie and Stephen Haber (eds.), Statistical Abstract of Latin America, volumes 21 and 22 (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin  American Center Publications, 1981 and 1983).

Papers

Stanley L. Engerman, Stephen Haber, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, "Inequality, Institutions, and Economic Growth:  A Comparative Study of New World Economies Since the Sixteenth Century," in Claude Menard ed., Institutions, Contracts, and Organizations: Perspectives from New Institutional Economics (Edward Elgar
Publishing, forthcoming 2000), 30 manuscript pages.

Stephen Haber and Armando Razo, "Industrial Prosperity Under Political Instability: An Analysis of Revolutionary Mexico," in Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton Root eds., Governing for Prosperity (Yale University Press, 2000).

"Institutional Change, Economic Growth, and Economic History: An Introduction," in Stephen Haber ed.,Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America (Hoover Institution Press, forthcoming 2000).

"Anything Goes: Mexico's 'New' Cultural History,"Hispanic American Historical Review 79:2 (May 1999), pp. 299-319.

Stephen Haber and Armando Razo, "Political Instability and Economic Performance: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico,"World Politics 51 (October 1998), pp. 99-143.

Armando Razo and Stephen Haber, "The Rate of Growth of Productivity in Mexico, 1850-1933: Evidence from the Cotton  Textile Industry,"  Journal of Latin American Studies 30:3 (October 1998), pp. 481-517.

"The Efficiency Consequences of Institutional Change: Financial Market Regulation and Industrial   Productivity Growth in Brazil, 1866-1934," in John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor eds., Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800 (Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies/Harvard University Press, 1998), pp. 275-322. An earlier version of this article was published in Estudos Econômicos 28:3 (July-Sept., 1998), pp. 379-420. A rewritten and abbreviated version of this article was also published in Stephen Haber ed., Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America (Hoover Institution Press, forthcoming 2000).

"Financial Market Regulation, Imperfect Capital Markets, and Industrial Concentration:  Mexico in Comparative Perspective, 1830-1930,"  Economía Mexicana VII:1 (1998), pp. 5-46.

"The Worst of Both Worlds: The New Cultural History of Mexico,"  Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 13:2 (Summer 1997), pp. 363-384.

Stephen Haber, David M. Kennedy, and Stephen D. Krasner, "Brothers Under the Skin:  Diplomatic History and International Relations,"International Security 22:1 (Summer  1997), pp. 34-43.

"Tasa de rendimiento de las manufacturas en el México porfiriano: La experiencia de la industria textil de algodón,"  El Trimestre Económico 64:2 (April-June 1997), pp. 241-272.

"Introduction: Economic Growth and Latin American Economic Historiography," in Stephen Haber ed., How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914 (Stanford University Press, 1997), pp. 1-33. The first two sections of this article also appeared in Spanish translation as "Crecimiento económico e historia económica de América Latina," Economía: Teoría y Práctica 8 (1997), pp. 155-174.

"Financial Markets and Industrial Development: A  Comparative Study of Government Regulation, Financial  Innovation, and Industrial Structure in Brazil and Mexico,  1840-1930," in Stephen Haber ed., How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and  Mexico, 1800-1914 (Stanford University Press, 1997), pp. 146- 178.

Stephen Haber and Herbert S. Klein, "The Economic Consequences  of Brazilian Independence", in Stephen Haber ed., How Latin  America Fell Behind:  Essays on the Economic Histories of  Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914 (Stanford University Press,  1997), pp. 243-259. This is a reworking of an article earlier  published in Portuguese as "As Consequências Econômicas da  Independência Brasileira," Novos Estudos Cebrab 33 (July,  1992), pp. 236-248.  It also appeared in Spanish translation  as "Consecuencias económicas de la independencia brasileña," in Leandro Prados de la Escosura and Samuel Amaral eds., La  independencia americana: consecuencias económicas (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1993), pp. 147-163.

"Regulatory Regimes, Capital Markets, and  Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Brazil, Mexico,  and the United States, 1830-1940," in John Harriss, Janet  Hunter, and Colin M. Lewis eds., The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development (London: Routledge,  1995), pp. 265-282.

Stephen Haber, "El Derrubamiento, 1926-1932," in Enrique  Cárdenas ed., Lecturas: Historia económica de México , Vol. V  (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica,1994), pp. 34-57.[Reprint  of chapter nine of Industria y Subdesarollo , above].

"Recuperación y crecimiento, 1933-1940," in  Enrique Cárdenas ed.,Lecturas: Historia económica de México,  Vol. V (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1994), pp. 298- 319. [Reprint of chapter ten of Industria y Subdesarrollo ,  above].

"La industrialización de México: historiografía y  análisis," Historia Mexicana 167 (Jan.-March 1993), pp. 649- 688.

"La Revolución y la industria manufacturera  mexicana, 1910-1925," in Enrique Cárdenas ed., Lecturas:  Historia económica de México, Vol. III (Mexico: Fondo de  Cultura Económica, 1992), pp. 415-446.

"Business Enterprise and the Great Depression in  Brazil: A Study of Profits and Losses in Textile  Manufacturing," Business History Review 66 (Summer 1992), pp.  335-363. This article was translated into Portuguese as "Lucratividade Industrial e a Grande Depressao no Brasil:  Evidências da Industria Têxtil de Algodao," Estudos  Econômicos 21:2 (May-Sept. 1991), pp. 241-270. An abbreviated  version was reprinted as "Brazilian Industry and the Great  Depression," in Richard J. Salvucci ed., Latin America and  the World Economy: Dependency and Beyond (D.C. Heath and  Company, 1996), pp. 120-126.

"Concentración industrial, desarrollo del mercado  de capitales y redes financieras basadas en el parentesco: un  estudio comparado de Brasil, México y Los Estados Unidos,  1840-1930," Revista de Historia Económica 10:1 (winter 1992), pp. 99-124; and 10:2 (spring 1992), pp. 213-240. [Published in  two parts].

"Assessing the Obstacles to Industrialization:  The Mexican Economy, 1830-1930," Journal of Latin American  Studies 24:1 (Jan. 1992), pp. 1-32. This article is being reprinted in Patrick K. O'Brien ed., Critical Perspectives on  the World Economy (Routledge, forthcoming).  A longer version  of this article was published in Spanish translation as a two  part article as "La economía mexicana, 1830-1940: obstáculos a la industrialización," Revista de Historia Económica 8:1  (Winter 1990), pp. 81-93; and 8:2 (Spring 1990), pp. 335-362.

"Industrial Concentration and the Capital  Markets: A Comparative Study of Brazil, Mexico, and the United  States, 1830-1930," The Journal of Economic History 51:3  (Sept. 1991), pp. 559-580.  This article was reprinted in  Peter Temin ed., Industrialization in North America (London:  Basil Blackwell, 1994), pp. 717-738.

"Exportaciones industriales durante el  Porfiriato: lecciones para los años 90?" in James W. Wilkie  and Jesús Reyes Heroles González Garza eds., Industria y  trabajo en México (Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana,  1990), pp. 31-44.

"Porfirian Manufacturing and the Rate of Profit,  1896-1910," in Samuel Schmidt, James W. Wilkie, and Manuel  Esparza eds., Estudios cuantitativos sobre la historia de  México (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,  1988), pp. 157-176.

"The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890 to 1940,"  The Journal of Economic History 47:2 (Spring 1987), pp. 493- 495.

"Modernization and Change in Mexican Communities,  1930 to 1970," in James W. Wilkie and Stephen Haber eds.,  Statistical Abstract of Latin America 22
(UCLA Latin American  Center Publications, 1983), pp. 633-653.

"Mexican Community Studies in a Historical  Framework, 1930 to 1970," in James W. Wilkie and Stephen Haber  eds., Statistical Abstract of Latin America 21 (UCLA Latin  American Center Publications, 1981), pp. 567-576.