The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938
研究了1938年墨西哥石油国有化事件，发现美国公司通过政治策略迫使罗斯福总统支持其利益，墨西哥政府超额补偿了公司，而工人工资和政府石油收入并未上升。
The Mexican expropriation of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature makes three assertions: the United States did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them for the value of their assets, and the oil workers benefitted from the expropriation. This article finds that none of those assertions hold. The companies devised political strategies that maneuvered a reluctant President Roosevelt into supporting their interests, and the Mexican government more than fully compensated them as a result. Neither wages for oil workers nor Mexican government oil revenue rose after the expropriation.