Resumen

CORDOBA RAMIREZ, Diana Irina. Empresas, especulación y política al mediar el siglo XIX: el caso de Manuel Payno. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2007, n.28, pp.61-84. ISSN 2007-3496.

This article responds to the question "How did XIX-century politicians combine their political ideas with speculative and entrepreneurial projects?" In other words, to describe, through an analysis of a moment in Manuel Payno's political career, one of the ways that private interests, social networks and modernizing objectives interacted in the mid-XIX^th century economic climate.

Palabras llave : Manuel Payno; Nineteenth Century; Mexico; Developmentalism; Secretary of Treasury; Companies; Networks; Railroad; Speculation; Mining; Unproductive lands.