Position Type
Faculty
Service
- Present
Biography

I teach Macroeconomics and Economic Development courses since 2014. As a teacher I focus my effort in creating a classroom environment that inspires students to be imaginative, critical and rigorous thinkers as well as socially responsible individuals. I believe that the diverse intellectual background of faculty members together with the engaged, creative and critical mind of Denison students creates positive synergies and brings unique learning opportunities for both students and faculty. As a scholar I greatly value the academic freedom that the economics department offers for me to pursue my intellectual passion in studying development issues from a political economy perspective.

 

Degree(s)
Ph.D. The New School for Social Research, New York. M.A. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico. B.Sc. Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico.

Learning & Teaching

Courses
  • Econ 101-Introductory Macroeconomics
  • Econ 301-Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • Econ 412-Economic Development in the Third World
  • Econ 440-Latin American Economic Development
  • Econ 440-International Labor Migration in a Globalized Economy

Research

My research combines theory and empirical analysis to study topics in economic development, economic history of Latin America and classical political economy.
Details

I have been studying topics such as; the empirical relationship between patterns of technical change and income inequality in Latin American countries; the relationship between income per capita and world population dynamics; the views on income distribution followed by the so called “structuralists” economists and how their ideas can be used to study current issues of inequality. I am working on two projects, the first one uses Input-Output analysis to study the empirical relationship between trade globalization and wage inequality in Chile and Mexico. The second, (with my coauthor) uses patterns of technical change to provide an alternative characterization of the world economy. This characterization allows us to study the phenomenon of de-industrialization in developing countries.

Works

Publications

Peer reviewed articles:

Work in progress:

  • “Income Inequality and Sustainable Prosperity: Lessons from the not Distant Past” Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity Working Paper Series (Working Paper No. 109, August 2015).
  • “Patterns of Technical Change and De-industrialization”. (Paper submitted to the PSL Quarterly Review).
  • “Economic and Political Implications of Piketty’s Idea’s for Developing countries; The Case of Latin America”

Other

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