
It was founded in 1934 by Daniel Cosío Villegas with the original purpose of providing students of economics from the Escuela Nacional de Economía with specialized books in Spanish. It is based in Mexico but it has subsidiaries throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE or simply “Fondo”) is a Spanish language, non-profit publishing group, partly funded by the Mexican government.
