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    In Conversation: José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez and Mayara Felix on inequality in Latin America
    … Espín-Sánchez and Mayara Felix on inequality in Latin America … February 11, 2025 | In Conversation In … respective subfields – applied microeconomics and economic history – are both critical for understanding the challenge. … networks. First, we’re studying a number of Latin American countries’ 16th-century contracts with Spain and …
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    How an Early Vision of Training Global Economists Led to Yale’s International and Development Economics (IDE) Master’s Program
    … Economics (IDE) Master’s Program … April 30, 2025 | EGC History How an Early Vision of Training Global Economists Led … development economists. by Adena Spingarn When Belgian-American economist Robert Triffin joined Yale’s economics … Brazilian IFEA student Edmar Bacha took a course on Latin American Studies while also joining a seminar on Latin …
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    Naomi Lamoreaux
    … Professor Emeritus of Economics and Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University, Senior Research Scholar at the … Bureau of Economic Research. She received her Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins in 1979 and taught at Brown, the … and Yale. She has written The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 and Insider Lending: Banks, …
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    A brief history of EGC
    … A brief history of EGC … A brief history of EGC Longtime EGC faculty … like the labor surplus model, the land surplus model, the Latin American economy, the African economy, natural resource-rich …
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    Articles on EGC History
    … Articles on EGC History … Articles on EGC History EGC was the first development research center in a … to understand economic development. Documenting the rich history of the EGC The International and Foreign Economic …
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    Leticia Arroyo Abad
    … has analyzed the development of forced labor in Spanish Latin America, examined the impact of mining on long-term … in Argentina, and quantified the effect of pandemics on American election results. Leticia Arroyo Abad … Leticia … has analyzed the development of forced labor in Spanish Latin America, examined the impact of mining on long-term …
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    Naomi Lamoreaux on Her Wide-Ranging Career and What Economists Can Learn From Economic History
    … Career and What Economists Can Learn From Economic History … April 18, 2024 | News Naomi Lamoreaux on Her … Career and What Economists Can Learn From Economic History The Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and … centuries, when the size and distribution of firms in the American economy really changed. How did it happen that …
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    How Nancy Birdsall’s time at Yale Economic Growth Center helped her rethink global development
    … her rethink global development … November 17, 2021 | EGC History How Nancy Birdsall’s time at Yale Economic Growth … economic principles widely adopted throughout Latin America in the 1980s and 90s following the debt crisis. … path. After a liberal arts education (a BA in American Studies and an MA in international affairs), she …
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    Economic History Lunch
    … Economic History Lunch … Economic History Lunch Information Student organizer 2023-2024: … if you want to receive announcements about the Economic History Lunch and/or the Economic History Workshop. … …
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    A young Brazilian economics student at Yale in the 1960s
    … student at Yale in the 1960s … April 9, 2021 | EGC History A young Brazilian economics student at Yale in the 1960s As part of EGC's series on Latin American economists at Yale in the 1960s, Edmar Bacha has …
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