Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan (review)
In the economic section, Manuel Pastor and Carol Wise offer a number of interpretations in a well-argued essay on the long-term economic trends underlying Mexico's political transformation. The most significant trend, because of its immense social and political reverberations, is clearly that of economic inequality. The statistical data they cite through 2000 demonstrates unequivocally that inequality has increased since 1984, and the poor are worse, not better off, today. An even more surprising finding is that real per capita gross income grew a paltry four percent from 1980-1999, averaging 0.02 percent yearly.