John Tutino

Bio: John Tutino is an academic researcher from Georgetown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agrarian society & Independence. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 32 publications receiving 428 citations. Previous affiliations of John Tutino include Boston College & University of Texas at Austin.

El debate del futuro de México. Buscando una economía nueva; encontrando desafíos y límites, 1830-1845

Abstract: By 1830, it was clear that the silver economy that made New Spain rich had collapsed and would not soon recover. Mexico’s commercial economy languished and the government searched for revenue. Debates followed. Lucas Alaman argued that a revival of silver and the rise of industry would bring growth and fund government. Tadeo Ortiz insisted that Mexico become a commodity exporter—noting that strong exporters relied on slave labor. After the loss of Texas, the early 1840s saw Alaman defend his industrial vision while the liberal editors of Siglo xix published a British analysis calling for export development in California as a British-Mexican venture. An anonymous analyst, JG, closed debate in 1845, insisting that limited mining, industry for national markets, and modest exports (Mexicans would not abide slavery) were the only way. Then came war and the loss of California.

Historias del mexico agrario

Abstract: DESDE LA REMOTA INVENCION DE LA agricultura hasta mediados del siglo X X , los pueblos del territorio que ahora es Mexico vivieron en sociedades agrarias. Milenios antes de la conquista espanola, en el territorio mexicano o cerca de el se cultivo por primera vez el maiz, el frijol y el chile, y asi se creo el perdurable sistema alimentario mesoamericano. Tambien fue en territorio mexicano donde el cultivo del campo se convirtio en la base de organizaciones sociales cada vez mas complejas y pujantes: sociedades regionales primero y, despues, hacia el periodo clasico, estados e imperios agricolas mas opulentos. Los conquistadores espanoles encontraron en ese territorio sociedades de agricultores a cuyos gobernantes pudieron conquistar y cuya produccion habria de sostener un complejo europeo de colonizacion y mineria de la plata que hizo de Mexico una colonia modelo. En los siglos recientes, al mismo tiempo que las fuerzas del industrialismo urbano capitalista han hecho presion para redefinir al pais, los mexicanos comprometidos con los modos de vida rurales han luchado inquebrantablemente, al menos con un exito limitado, por demorar la destruccion, ya casi completa, del Mexico agrario. Las sociedades agrarias se basan en el cultivo; la vasta mayoria de sus miembros, por lo general en unidades fami-

New Countries : Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870

Abstract: After 1750 the Americas lived political and popular revolutions, the fall of European empires, and the rise of nations as the world faced a new industrial capitalism. Political revolution made the United States the first new nation; revolutionary slaves made Haiti the second, freeing themselves and destroying the leading Atlantic export economy. A decade later, Bajio insurgents took down the silver economy that fueled global trade and sustained Spain’s empire while Britain triumphed at war and pioneered industrial ways that led the U.S. South, still-Spanish Cuba, and a Brazilian empire to expand slavery to supply rising industrial centers. Meanwhile, the fall of silver left people from Mexico through the Andes searching for new states and economies. After 1870 the United States became an agro-industrial hegemon, and most American nations turned to commodity exports, while Haitians and diverse indigenous peoples struggled to retain independent ways. Contributors. Alfredo Avila, Roberto Brena, Sarah C. Chambers, Jordana Dym, Carolyn Fick, Erick Langer, Adam Rothman, David Sartorius, Kirsten Schultz, John Tutino

What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature

Abstract: A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature, precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on changes in weather realizations over time within a given spatial area and demonstrate impacts on agricultural output, industrial output, labor productivity, energy demand, health, conflict, and economic growth, among other outcomes. By harnessing exogenous variation over time within a given spatial unit, these studies help credibly identify (i) the breadth of channels linking weather and the economy, (ii) heterogeneous treatment effects across different types of locations, and (iii) nonlinear effects of weather variables. This paper reviews the new literature with two purposes. First, we summarize recent work, providing a guide to its methodologies, datasets, and findings. Second, we consider applications of the new literature, including insights for the "damage function" within models that seek to assess the potential economic effects of future climate change. ( JEL C51, D72, O13, Q51, Q54)

Primitive accumulation, accumulation by dispossession, accumulation by ‘extra-economic’ means

Abstract: David Harvey's adaptation and redeployment of Marx's notion of ‘primitive accumulation’–under the heading of ‘accumulation by dispossession’–has reignited interest in the concept among geographers. This adaptation of the concept of primitive accumulation to different contexts than those Marx analyzed raises a variety of theoretical and practical issues. In this paper, I review recent uses and transformations of the notion of primitive accumulation that focus on its persistence within the Global North, addressing especially the political implications that attend different readings of primitive accumulation in the era of neoliberal globalization.

Democracy, Indigenous Movements, and Postliberal Challenge in Latin America

Abstract: Scholars of democratic consolidation have come to focus on the links between political institutions and enduring regime outcomes. This article takes issue with the conceptual and analytical underpinnings of this literature by highlighting how new political institutions, rather than securing democratic politics, have in fact had a more checkered effect. It delineates why the theoretical expectations of the democratic consolidation literature have not been realized and draws, by example, on the contemporary ethnic movements that are now challenging third-wave democracies. In particular, it highlights how contemporary indigenous movements, emerging in response to unevenly institutionalized reforms, pose a postliberal challenge to Latin America's I newly founded democracies. These movements have sparked political debates and constitutional reforms over community rights, territorial autonomy, and a multiethnic citizenry. As a whole, I they have laid bare the weakness of state institutions, the contested terms of democracy, and the I indeterminacy of ethnic accommodation in the region. As such, these movements highlight the need to qualify somewhat premature and narrow discussions of democratic consolidation in favor I of a broader research agenda on democratic politics.