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A Paper InformationThe Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere by Carmen Nobel How did a world class coffee region arise out of a land once decimated by smallpox and measles Casey Lurtz discusses the rise of a coffee economy in a desolate region of Mexico. Near the Guatemalan border in Mexico s Chiapas region sandwiched between the Sierra Madres and the Pacific Ocean there s a fertile pocket of land called the Soconusco.
While once a hotbed of cacao production for the Aztecs and then the Spanish the area was decimated by smallpox and measles soon after the Spanish conquest. For most of the s hardly anyone lived there. But by the turn of the twentieth century the Soconusco had become a major coffee producer and expo Poland Mobile Number List rter. It remains so today. Casey M. Lurtz is intrigued by this unlikely agricultural success story and has spent much of her academic career studying the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While her geographical focus is narrow her research yields insights into export economies—and broad lessons for anyone building an entrepreneurial community in the face of adversity.
“THE WORK IS ALL ABOUT THE DIFFICULTY OF S NOTHING.” The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there s nothing where there are no roads where there s no reliable labor system where there are no property rights where there are no banks for another years says Lurtz the Harvard Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School. How do you build these institutions that you need for market agriculture in a place where maybe there are laws on the books but there s not much apparatus for support It s looking at all these entrepreneurs who are working and trying and failing and succeeding—and who eventually build up the largest exporter of coffee in Mexico.
While once a hotbed of cacao production for the Aztecs and then the Spanish the area was decimated by smallpox and measles soon after the Spanish conquest. For most of the s hardly anyone lived there. But by the turn of the twentieth century the Soconusco had become a major coffee producer and expo Poland Mobile Number List rter. It remains so today. Casey M. Lurtz is intrigued by this unlikely agricultural success story and has spent much of her academic career studying the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While her geographical focus is narrow her research yields insights into export economies—and broad lessons for anyone building an entrepreneurial community in the face of adversity.
“THE WORK IS ALL ABOUT THE DIFFICULTY OF S NOTHING.” The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there s nothing where there are no roads where there s no reliable labor system where there are no property rights where there are no banks for another years says Lurtz the Harvard Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School. How do you build these institutions that you need for market agriculture in a place where maybe there are laws on the books but there s not much apparatus for support It s looking at all these entrepreneurs who are working and trying and failing and succeeding—and who eventually build up the largest exporter of coffee in Mexico.