Mexico holds the potential for a disastrous confrontation or a constructive breakthrough regarding sustainable development. The world's wealthy nations have been largely able to insulate themselves from the costs of the social and ecological deterioration that characterizes the world's poor...

This paper examines patterns of integration among manufacturers and retails, using data from a survey of footwear manufacturers in Mexico. The property rights framework, developed in papers by Grossman, Hart and Moore, is differentiated from the standard empirical transactions cost framework. In...