TY - BOOK AU - John S. Ph. D. Leiby PY - 1987 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - Colonial Bureaucrats and the Mexican Economy T2 - Growth of a Patrimonial State, 1763-1821 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1078305 N2 - By the late eighteenth century, the Mexican economy was highly centralized. Bourbon economic reforms succeeded in augmenting the powers of the crown and its vast colonial officialdom. The Mexican economy became largely patrimonial. Colonial officials, with miners and merchants, controlled the evolution of the economy. The bureaucratic state dictated policy and gave Mexico a centralized economy which persists to the present day. LA - English ER -