The cooperative is a managerial reality with a collective ownership and democratic management that tries to foster solidarity, participation and joint responsibility. At the same time, as any other enterprise that runs according to the market pattern, it is within the market economy which makes...

This paper shows that the evolution of the level of Mexico real and real per capita output between 1895 and 2008 can be adequately described through a trendstationary model, affected by 4 structural breaks, which occurred at dates that seem to coincide with domestic institutional arrangements,...