CARDENAS, Enrique 1954-

PERSONAL: April 4, 1954, in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico; married. Education: Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico, Licenciado (economics), 1977; Yale University, Ph.D., 1982.

ADDRESSES: Home—Casa 19, Residencial Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Sta. Catarina Martir, Puebla 72820, Mexico.

CAREER: Grupo Secretaria de Hacienda-Banco de Mexico, assistant researcher, 1975-76; Banco de Mexico, office of the deputy director of economic research, assistant, 1976-78; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, research assistant, 1981-82; Universidad de las Americas, professor of economics, 1982—; Presidencia de la Republica, Unidad de la Cronica Presidencial, researcher, 1983-85; Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, economic department chairman, Center for Economic Research coordinator, 1983-85. Visiting professor, Instituto Autonomo de Mexico, Colegio de Mexico, and Stanford Overseas Program.

AWARDS, HONORS: Premio BanaMex (national prize in economics), 1984.

WRITINGS:

(With A. Lajoux, U. Beltran, and S. Portilla) Las razones y las obras, gobierno de Miguel de la Madrid, cronica de un sexenio, 1982-1988, Unidad de la Cronica Presidencial, Presidencia de la Republica, 1984.

La industrializacion mexicana durante la gran depresion, Colegio de Mexico, Centro de Estudios Economicos, 1987.

La hacienda publica y la politica economica, 1929-1958, Colegio de Mexico, Fideicomiso Historia de las Americas/Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1994.

La politica economica en Mexico, 1950-1994, Colegio de Mexico, Fideicomiso Historia de las Americas/Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1996.

(Coeditor with Jose Antonio Ocampo and Rosemary Thorp) An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America (multi-volume), Palgrave (New York, NY), 2000.

SIDELIGHTS: In La hacienda publica y la politica economica, 1929-1958 economist Enrique Cardenas provides a history of the Mexican economy from the time of the Great Depression though 1958. Americas contributor Barbara A. Tenenbaum concluded "We can only hope Rector Cardenas will take some time out from his administrative duties to write the thrilling sequel to this excellent contribution."

In An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America Cardenas and his coeditors provide an economic history of Latin America. Volume one covers the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, volume two covers the 1930s, and volume three covers the period after World War II. "These three volumes are extremely well written, relatively comprehensive, and analytically challenging," noted J. L. Dietz in a Choice review.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

American Historical Review, December, 1996, James W. Wilkie, review of La hacienda publica y la politica economica, 1929-1958, p. 1659.

Americas, January, 1998, Barbara A. Tenenbaum, review of La hacienda publica y la politica economica, 1929-1958, p. 478.

Business History, January, 2002, Tamas Szmrecsanyi, review of An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America, p. 132.

Choice, October, 2001, J. L. Dietz, review of AnEconomic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America, p. 357.

Journal of Economic History, December, 1996, Richard J. Salvucci, review of La hacienda publica y la politica economica, 1929-1958, p. 942.

Journal of Economic Literature, December, 2001, review of An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America, p. 1366.

Latin American Research Review, summer, 1999, Eric Van Young, review of La hacienda publica y la politica economica, 1929-1958, p. 143.

Times Literary Supplement, January 18, 2002, Edward N. Luttwak, "Flagging Fortunes," p. 12.

online

Economic History Services,http://www.eh.net/ (July 18, 2002), Edward Beatty, review of An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America.

Penguin Putnam,http://www.penguinputnam.com/ (May 9, 2002), review of An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America.*