April 23, 2009 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Columbia University Morningside Heights International Affairs Building, Room 802
Enrique Cardenas is a Mexican economic historian. He holds a PhD from Yale University, and is currently the executive director of the Mexican Think Tank Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias. He has written several books and articles on Mexican economic history and contemporary Mexican economy including When did Backwardness Start? Mexican History in the 19th Century; Public Finance and Economic Policy 1929-1958; and An Economic History on Twentieth Century Latin America. He is the former President of the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU, the Institute for Latin American Studies and the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Program at Columbia University