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About

A historian specializing in economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Ted Beatty served as interim director of the Kellogg Institute from 2007 to 2009 and associate dean in the Keough School of Global Affairs from 2015 to 2022. His research has examined the role of institutions in economic development and the history of technological change in Mexico. He is currently working on an NSF-funded project on the global history of engineering titled Blueprint for Modernity, ca. 1870-1950 with Israel G. Solares. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2000.

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Thematic Interests

Mexican economy; political basis of industrialization in Mexico; technology studies; comparative socioeconomic development

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Journal Articles

“Technology in Latin America’s Past and Present: New Evidence from the Patent Records” (with Patricio Sáiz and Yovanna Pineda), Latin American Research Review

Coauthors. “Sabine MacCormack (1941–2012)” Hispanic American Historical Review 93, 1 (2013)

“Bottles for Beer: Business Strategy and the Challenge of Technology Transfer in Mexico,” Business History Review 83 (Summer 2009)

“Approaches to Technology Transfer in History and the Case of Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” Comparative Technology Transfer and Society 1, 2 (2003)

“Visiones del futuro: la reorientación de la política económica en México (1867–1893),” Signos Históricos (Mexico) 10 (julio–diciembre 2003)

“Patents and Technological Change in Late Industrialization: Nineteenth Century Mexico in Comparative Perspective,” History of Technology 24 (2002)

Books

El mito de una riqueza proverbial: deas, utopia y proyectos económicos en torno a México en los siglos XVIII y XIX, with Francisco Altable, José Enrique Covarrubias, and Richard Weiner (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 2015)

Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2015)

Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911 (Stanford University Press, 2001)

Book Chapters

“Riqueza, Polémica, y Política: Pensamiento y Políticas Económicas en México, (1765–1911),” in José Enrique Covarrubias, ed., Historia del pensamiento económico en México: ideas y debate en torno a la riqueza, el progreso y el auge económico de 1750 a 1900 (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

“The World’s Beer: A Historical Geography of Beer in Mexico” (with Susan M. Gauss), in Mark W. Patterson and Nancy Hoalst Pullen, eds., The Geography of Beer: Regions, Environment, and Societies (Springer Publishing, 2014)

“Propiedad industrial, patentes e inversión en tecnología en España y México (1820–1914)” (with Patricio Sáiz González), in Rafael Dobado, Aurora Gómez Galvarriato, and Graciela Márquez, eds., España y México: Historias Económicas Paralelas? (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007)

“Commercial Policy in Porfirian Mexico: The Structure of Protection,” in Stephen Haber & Jeffrey Bortz, eds., The Mexican Economy, 1870–1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth (Stanford University Press, 2002)

Nov 14 to 15, 2020

A Blueprint for Modernity: Engineers and the Globalization of Expertise, ca. 1870-1930 (VIRTUAL)

Conferences/Workshops

Edward (Ted) Beatty, Israel Garcia Solares, Elisabeth Köll

May 13 to 16, 2020

Kellogg at LASA 2020

Luis Leandro Schenoni, Maria Rosa Olivera-Williams, Karen E. Richman, Omar Coronel Cuadros, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Jorge Ivan Puma Crespo, Edward (Ted) Beatty, Ruth Solarte

Tue, Apr 25, 2017

Asia and Asian Studies Working Group Discussion

R. Scott ApplebyEdward (Ted) BeattySara Sievers