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Ian J. Seda-Irizarry Department of Economics
John Jay College
City University of New York
524 West 59th Street, NB 9.63.10
New York, NY 10019
Personal
Born on May 3rd, 1979 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Language Proficiency: Spanish (native), English (fluent)
Education
Ph.D. Economics , University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2013 M.A. Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2010
M.A. (all but thesis) Economics, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Campus (2002-2005)
B.S. School of Business, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus
(1997-2002)
Employment
2013- present: Assistant Professor, John Jay College (CUNY), New York, NY
2012- 2014: Visiting Summer Instructor, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
2012- 2013: Visiting Assistant Professor, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2011- 2012: Instructor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY.
2006- 2011:Teaching Assistant and Instructor UMass, Amherst, MA
2003- 2005: Teaching Assistant, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR
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Awards/Fellowships
Spring 2015: Distinguished Teaching Award, John Jay College (shared with 3
departmental colleagues)
Spring 2011: Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) Dissertation
Fellowship
2005-06: Diversity Fellowship, University of Massachusetts
Departmental/College Services
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee, 2015-2017
General Education Subcommittee, 2015-2017
Faculty Senate, 2014-2015
Appeals Committee, 2014, 2017
Hiring Committee, 2013, 2016
Economics Department Newsletter, Co-editor, Fall 2013-Spring 2015; Fall 2016
Economic Justice Speaker Series, Coordinator, Fall 2013-Spring 2015
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Graduate Student Representative- Hiring Committee, 2009-2010
Student Representative- Graduate Studies Committee, Fall 2009
Co-Chair- Economics Graduate Student Organization, 2006-2007
Organizations
Union of Radical Political Economics (member)
American Society for Hispanic Economists (member)
Association for Economic and Social Analysis (member)
Asociación Puertorriqueña de Economía Política (member)
World Association for Political Economy (member)
International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (member)
Eastern Economic Association (member)
Referee Services
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Globalization and Development,
Rethinking Marxism, Revista Cuadernos de Economía, Research in Political Economy,
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Pensamiento al Margen, Antipode, Routledge
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Teaching Interests
Political Economy, History of Economic Thought, Economic History, Development,
Macroeconomics
Research Interests
Marxist Economic Theory, Political Economy of Development in Puerto Rico
Academic Writing
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals, Magazines, and Books
“Problematizing the Global Economy: Financialization and the ‘Feudalization’ of
capital” (with Rajesh Bhattacharya), in Burczak et al (eds), Marxism without Guarantees:
Economics, Knowledge, and Class, Routledge, pp. 329-345, October 2017. A translated
and slightly extended and revised version was published as “La Feudalización del Capital
en la Era de la Financialización,” Ambito de Encuentros, Vol 10, No 1, 7-29, May/June
2017.
“The Use of Dichotomies in Introductory Economics” (with Mathieu Dufour), Review of
Keynesian Economics, Vol 5, No 4, 519-532, October 2017.
“Developing Heterodox Economics Curriculum: The case of John Jay College” (with
Geert Dhondt, Mathieu Dufour, and Jay Hamilton), American Review of Political
Economy, Vol. 11, No 2, 126-136, October 2017.
“Primitive Accumulation” (with Rajesh Bhattacharya), in Brenner et al (eds), Routledge
Handbook of Marxian Economics, pp. 144-154, March 2017.
“Wealth Extraction, Governmental Servitude, and Social Disintegration in Colonial
Puerto Rico” (with Argeo Quiñones), New Politics, Vol. 15, No 4, 91-98, 2016.
“Una Fiera de la Vida: Pablo Rieznik (1949-2015),” Hic Rhodus: Crisis capitalistas,
polémica y controversia, Vol 5, No 9, 69-71, 2015.
“Re-centering Class in Critical Theory: A Tribute to Stephen A. Resnick (1938-2013)”
(with Rajesh Bhattacharya), Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 27, No 4, 669-
678, 2015.
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“Revisiting Resnick and Wolff’s Reading of Overdetermination,” Rethinking Marxism,
Vol. 25, No 3, 305-310, 2013.
“Crisis, Class, and Cooperatives: Some comments on the USW-Mondragón alliance,”
Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp 374-383, July 2011.
“The Role of Finance in the Latest Capitalist Crisis” (with Özgür Orhangazi), in Kawano
et all eds., Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet. Center for
Popular Economics, pp 65-74, June 2010.
Book Reviews
Review of “The Marxism of Manuel Sacristán: From Communism to the New Social
Movements,” by Renzo Llorente (editor), Capital and Class, 2016, Vol 40, No 1: 212-
214.
Review of “America Beyond Capitalism”, by Gar Alperovitz, Capital and Class, 2013,
Vol 37, No 2, 325-328.
Review of “Global Economic Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and
Resistance” by David McNally, Ambito de Encuentros, 2013, Vol. 6, No 1.
Review of “Dirigentes y Dirigidos: para leer los Cuadernos de la cárcel de Antonio
Gramsci” by Manuel S. Almeida, Rethinking Marxism, March 2012, Vol. 24, No 2, 324-
326.
Review of “Un resumen completo de El Capital de Marx” by Diego Guerrero, Cuadernos
de Economía, 2011, Vol. 30, 2nd semester, No 55, 275-280.
Review of “Reclaiming Marx’s Capital” by Andrew Kliman, Critique of Political
Economy, 2011, Vol. 1.
Review of “Capitalism Hits the Fan” by Richard D. Wolff , Cuadernos de Economía,
2010 Vol. 29, 1st semester, No 52, 237-243.
Review of “New Departures in Marxian Theory” by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff,
Review of Radical Political Economics, December 2009, Vol. 41, No. 4, 581-585.
Other Papers
“A Junta for Puerto Rico” (with Argeo Quiñones), 2016. Available at
http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/contentgroups/economics/SedaAJuntaforPuer
toRico.pdf
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“Un Vistazo Histórico y Metodológico al Problema de la Transformación de Valores a
Precios de Producción,” Serie Notas de Clase, Unidad de Investigaciones Económicas;
April, 2007 (Available at http://economia.uprrp.edu/notas%20de%20clase%2012.pdf )
Work in Progress
“The Self-Inflicted Dimensions of Puerto Rico’s Crisis” (with Argeo Quiñones),
accepted, minor revisions, Monthly Review.
“Behind the Masks of Total Choice: Teaching Alienation in the Age of Inequality” (with
Geert Dhondt and Mathieu Dufour), accepted, minor revisions, International Journal of
Pluralism and Economics Education.
“Beyond Colonialism: Rent-Seeking and the State in Puerto Rico” (with Argeo
Quiñones), for symposium on Puerto Rican crisis in Latin American Perspectives.
“150 years of Das Kapital: Fetichism, Autonomization, and Feudalization in the Age of
Financialization”
“Discourses of theft: Piracy and Exploitation in the Music Recording Industry”
“Music in the Marxian Tradition: A Critical Survey”
“Joan Robinson and North-American Marxism” (with Joseph Rebello).
Newspaper Articles
“Puerto Rico’s not so natural disaster” (with Heriberto Martínez), Jacobin, October 24,
2017.
“150 años de El Capital y la Economía de Puerto Rico”, September, 1, 2017. Available at
https://economiapoliticapr.org
“Urge revisar incentivos económicos”, December 13, 2016. Available at
https://economiapoliticapr.org
“Politics, Primaries, and Crisis in Puerto Rico” (with Argeo Quiñones) teleSUR, June 3,
2016.
Available at: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Politics-Primaries-and-Crisis-in-
Puerto-Rico-20160602-0035.html
“Clave el Modelo Cooperativo,” El Nuevo Día, p.52, May 19, 2016.
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“Sobre la Libertad y la Economía,” online magazine AbrePaso, March 14, 2016.
“Reforma Contributiva: ¿para qué y para quién?” (with Ricardo Fuentes-Ramírez),
Claridad, March 10-16, 2016.
“Pablo Rieznik (1949-2015): Una Fiera de la Vida,” Rebelión, September 28,
2015. Republished in the Uruguayan newspaper LaRed21.
“The Origins of the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis” (with Heriberto Martínez-Otero), Jacobin
(online version), August 11th, 2015. Available at:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/puerto-rico-debt-crisis-imf/
“Puerto Rico’s Debt: A Conjunctural Overview” (with Heriberto Martínez-Otero), New
Politics (online version), July 20, 2015. Available at: http://newpol.org/content/puerto-
rico%E2%80%99s-debt-conjunctural-overview
“La deuda de Puerto Rico: una mirada coyuntural” (with Heriberto Martínez-Otero), El
Salmón Contracorriente, July 14, 2015. Available at:
http://www.elsalmoncontracorriente.es/?La-deuda-de-Puerto-Rico-una-mirada
“Riesgo, Política y Poder,” 80grados.net, July 3rd, 2015.
“Pablo Iglesias y Podemos en Nueva York,” Claridad, March, 2015.
“La distribución el ingreso,” El Nuevo Día, June 14, 2014.
“La ceguera económica sí está bien distribuida,” Claridad, May 29-June 4, 2014.
“Cooperativismo y Ley Marcora para Puerto Rico” (with Heriberto Martínez-Otero)
Available at http://www.80grados.net/cooperativismo-y-la-ley-marcora-para-puerto-rico/.
Republished in Claridad, August 1-7, 2013. “El Minotauro Global: Estados Unidos como centro de la crisis mundial,” Claridad, June
21-27, 2012. “Microcrédito y Pobreza,” Claridad, June 14-20, 2012.
“A diez años del 11 de septiembre: Los ejercicios imperiales y la crisis del sistema,”
Claridad, September 8-14, 2011.
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“40 años del Cheetah: Un vistazo general del antes y después del golpe de gracia
salsero,” Claridad, August 25-31, 2011. Republished in two parts in Melómanos
Documentos, No 55-56, 2012.
“Kapitalizm Sonrası Düşe Bir Katkı: Katılımcı Ekonomi,” Birikim, No 268-269, pp. 45-
48, August-September, 2011.
“Oscilaciones ideológicas en debate 'intervención vs liberalización',” Diálogo Digital,
August 15th, 2011.
“La ideología de los literatos de la economía,” Revista Amauta, August 14th, 2011.
“Sociedad, Desarrollo y Conocimiento,” Claridad, July 21-27, 2011.
“Hay economistas y hay economistas,” El Nuevo Día, versión cibernética, June15, 2011.
“Keynes y el grito de histeria capitalista,” Claridad, April 28- May 4, 2011.
“Adam Smith no está muerto,” El Nuevo Día, versión cibernética, April 21, 2011.
“La mujer y la crisis en el mercado laboral,” Claridad, April 14-20, 2011.
“A Contribution to the Post-Capitalist Imaginary” (in Turkish), Siyaset Kahvesi, January
8th, 2011. Available at: http://www.siyasetkahvesi.com/sayfa.php?ole=yazi&yzid=982
“¿Marx dónde estás?¿Entre rugidos o maullidos?” (with Manuel Marqués), Claridad,
December 16-22, 2010.
“El capitalismo depredador a tres años de su crisis,” Claridad, August 2-8, 2010.
“Entrevista a Richard Wolff: Estados Unidos y la Crisis Capitalista,” Claridad, July 29-
August 4, 2010. Republished in the journal Trabajadores of the Universidad Obrera de
México, Vol. 78, pp 12-16, May-June, 2010.
“Paul Samuelson: Obituario tardío de un cómplice,” Claridad, March 18-24, 2010.
“La anarquía capitalista y el sufrimiento de las mayorías,” Claridad, December 10-16,
2009.
“¿La ilusión de la recuperación?,” Claridad, August 13-19, 2009.
“Capitalismo Neoliberal y Capitalismo Regulado: Dos caras de la misma moneda,”
Claridad, July 23-29, 2009.
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“El Plan Obama y las Representaciones de la Crisis Capitalista,” Claridad, March 4-11,
2009.
“Keynes, Smith y el Síntoma de la Crisis Financiera,” Claridad, October 23-29, 2008.
“El Problemático Discurso de la Eficiencia Económica,” Claridad, December, 2007.
“Sobre Economistas, sus Modelos y el Futuro de Puerto Rico,” Claridad, October, 2006
Conferences/Talks/Workshops
“The rentier state in Puerto Rico” presented at the Urban Studies Conference at La
Guardia Community College, NYC, November 7, 2017.
“The Self-inflicted Dimensions of Puerto Rico’s Crisis” presented at the 4th Biennial
International Conference of the Network for the Critical Study of Global Capitalism, La
Havana, Cuba, November 1st, 2017.
“The Self-inflicted Dimensions of Puerto Rico’s Crisis” presented at the Critical
Perspectives on Puerto Rico Symposium, organized by the Center for Puerto Rican
Studies of Hunter College, at the Silberman School of Social Work, NYC, October 28,
2017.
“Crisis in Puerto Rico: Who is to blame? What can be done?” presented at Holyrood
Church, NYC, September 24, 2017.
"Puerto Rico, and the Junta: A tale of colonial and neocolonial dispossession," panel with
Ed Morales, Sarah Molinari, and David Galarza, presented at Left Forum, John Jay
College, NYC, June 4, 2017.
“Millennial Marxism: Does the Revolution Need a Revolution?,” panel with Antonio
Callari, Sumitra Rajkumar, Sujani Reddy, and Nicholas Powers, presented at Left Forum,
John Jay College, NYC, June 4, 2017.
“Notes of Hope: The Current Puerto Rican Experience,” panel with Carlos Torre, Johnny
Colón, and Andrés Torres, presented at Lehman College, April 28, 2017.
“Island Promesas: A Conversation on the Economic Crisis in Puerto Rico” panel with Ed
Morales and Miguel Luciano, at the BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY, February 8, 2017.
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“The self-inflicted crisis and the Junta in Puerto Rico” presented at UMass/Amherst, for
the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (October 21) and in
Holyoke Public Library (October 22), 2016.
“La Junta Fiscal: Austerity, Wealth Extraction and Crisis in Puerto Rico,” presented at
the monthly Democracy At Work Meetings, Brooklyn, New York, September 21, 2016.
"Austerity, Wealth Extraction, and Crisis: The Case of Puerto Rico," presented at the
International Post-Keynesian Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, September 15, 2016.
“Fiscal Crisis and Opportunities: What Route for Puerto Rico” presented at the Puerto
Rico and Massachusetts: Current Crisis and a Vision for the Future Conference, at
Roxbury Community College, Boston, November 12, 2015.
“Crisis Económica en Puerto Rico,” panel with Héctor Cordero, presented at the Centro
de Acción Pastoral Latino, Bronx, NYC, September 14, 2015. “Financialization: Autonomization or Feudalization of Capital?” (with Rajesh
Bhattacharya) presented at the Eastern Economic Association’s annual meeting at
Boston, March 9, 2014.
“History, Common Sense, and Method: Radical Political Economy and the Critique of
Mainstream Economics,” presented at the Eastern Economic Associations annual meeting
at Boston, March 7, 2014.
“Crisis Economics: How The Big Shots Gamble With Your Well Being,” presented at
the annual John Jay College of Criminal Justice Open House, New York, November, 10,
2013.
“Worker Cooperatives: Key Ingredients for Viability,” discussant in panel with Erik
Olsen, Virginie Pérotin, Christopher Gunn, Al Campbell, and Robin Hahnel, presented at
the Allied Social Science Association Annual Conference in San Diego, California,
January 4-6, 2013.
“Dándole sentido a la financialización: El Neoliberalismo y la Feudalización delCapital,”
presented at the IV Encuentro Internacional de la Economía Política y Derechos
Humanos, at the Universidad Popular Madres Plaza de Mayo, in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, October 4-6, 2012.
“Democracy at the Workplace: Are Coops a Solution to the Capitalist Crisis?,”
presentation as part of the Economic Justice Speakers Series held at John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, New York, March 19, 2012.
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“After the Crisis, Is a New Deal Possible? Do We Want One?,” a roundtable discussion
with Geert Dhondt, Mathieu Dufour, Josh Mason and Eric Pineault presented at the Left
Forum at Pace University, New York, March 17, 2012.
“Making Sense of Financialization: Neoliberalism and the Feudalization of Capital” (with
Rajesh Bhattacharya), presented at the Eastern Economic Associations annual meeting at
Boston, March 11, 2012.
“Politics and Ideology in Economics Pedagogy,” chair in panel presented at 3rd
International Conference of the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism
in Economics (ICAPE) presented at UMass/Amherst, Nov 11-13, 2011.
“The handyman economist: how economists save the world (and capitalism),” presented
at the 2nd annual International Conference in Political Economy, Istanbul University,
Beyazit, May 20-22, 2011.
“Is the cooperative model a solution to capitalism's crisis?,” accepted at the 7th Historical
Materialism Conference, Nov. 11-14, 2010, London.
“Cooperatives, Class, and Value Theory”, panel at Left Forum with David Ruccio, Bruce
Roberts, David Kristjanson and Stephen Healy. Pace University, NYC, March 20th,
2010.
“The Discourse of Development during Crisis in Puerto Rico,” presented at the 7th
Rethinking Marxism Conference, Nov. 5-8, 2009, UMass/Amherst
“The Effect of the Crisis on Economic Thought,” a roundtable discussion with J. Mohan
Rao, A. Razmi and J.P. de Souza presented at the 2nd annual Faculty and Graduate
Student Conference at the Political Economy Research Institute in Amherst,
Massachusetts, May 2nd, 2009.
“Exploring Root Causes and Solutions to the Financial Meltdown and Economic Crisis”
(with Özgür Orhangazi), presented at the First National Forum on the Solidarity
Economy, March 19-22, 2009-UMass/ Amherst.
“Wage Stagnation and the Current Financial Crisis: A Historical View,” talk presented
for the Northampton Living Wage Coalition in Northampton, MA, February 19th, 2009
“Salsa y Kontrol: A Class Analysis of Latin Music in NY,” Association for Economic
and Social Analysis Workshop, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, May 7, 2008
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Guest Lectures
Lecture on “Puerto Rico’s Economic Development” at John Jay College, in a course on
Global Economic Development, taught by Dr. Joan Hoffman (Spring, 2014).
Lecture on “Capitalism and Urban Development” at John Jay College, in a course on
Urban Sociology, taught by Prof. Ilgin Erdem (Fall, 2013).
Lecture on “Centralized and Decentralized Economic Planning Models” at Boğaziçi
University, Turkey, in a course on Contemporary World Economy, taught by Prof. Cem
Oyvat (Summer, 2011).
Intensive Seminar on the History of Economic Thought, at the Social Thought and
Political Economy (STPEC) Department at UMass/Amherst, taught by Prof. Katherine
Mallory (Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010).
Lecture on “Sraffa's 'Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities'” at the
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, in a graduate course on Post-Keynesian
Economic Models, taught by Dr. Juan Lara (Spring, 2005).
Media Interviews
WLTH 1370AM, interview on Puerto Rico post hurrican María, December 7, 2017.
WBAI 99.5 FM Living in Spanglish, on the imposition of a fiscal control board in Puerto
Rico, aired on September 8, 2016.
WBAI 99.5 FM for the program Economic Update (retransmitted by over 70 radio
stations around the U.S., 1.3 million listeners). Interview on the crisis and the imposition
of a fiscal control board in Puerto Rico, aired on September 2nd, 2016.
WKVM 810 AM for the program Fuego Cruzado. Interview on coup d’etat attempt in
Turkey, July 15, 2016.
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, for the program The Radical Imagination. “Universal
Debt: The particular cases of Greece and Puerto Rico,” aired on November 22, 2015.
Telemundo (Boston) and Univisión TV newscast, November 12, 2015.
WBAI 99.5 FM for the program Economic Update. Interview on socio-economic crisis of
Puerto Rico, August 25, 2015.
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MintPress News for article “Rich Investors Flock to Puerto Rico as Debt Crisis Pushes
Poor to Mainland,” August 18, 2015. Available at: http://www.mintpressnews.com/rich-
investors-flock-to-puerto-rico-as-the-debt-crisis-pushes-to-the-poor-to-the-
mainland/208707/
teleSUR for a documentary on “Alan Greenspan, Neoliberalism and the Washington
Consensus,” May 22, 2014.
WMUA 91.1 FM for the program Cancion Urgente. Interview on “Salsa in Jazz and Jazz
in Salsa,” April 25, 2012.
KPFA 94.1 FM for the program Against the Grain. Interview about “Cooperatives under
Capitalism,” December 21, 2011. Available at:
http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/510/id/511950/wed-12-21-11-co-ops-under-
capitalism
WMUA 91.1 FM for the program Cancion Urgente, Interview on “Richie Ray & Bobby
Cruz: Kings of Salsa,” November, 2009.
WMUA 91.1 FM for the program Cancion Urgente. Interview about “The Development
of Latin Music in NYC,” February 9th, 2009.
Teaching
Main Instructor
Seminar on Austerity and the Euro Crisis John Jay College/CUNY
Political Economy of Development in the Caribbean John Jay College/CUNY
Political Economy John Jay College/CUNY
Understanding U.S. Economic Data John Jay College/CUNY
Introduction to Economics and Global Capitalism John Jay College/CUNY
Economics in Historical Perspectives John Jay College/CUNY
Political Economy of Development in Latin America Bucknell University
Economic Principles and Problems Bucknell University
History of Economic Thought Bucknell University
History of the Marxist Tradition Boğaziçi University
International Political Economy Boğaziçi University
Introduction to Political Economy Boğaziçi University
Marxian Economics UMass/Amherst
International Economy UMass/Amherst
Intermediate Microeconomics UMass/Amherst
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Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Political Economy, UMass/Amherst
Marxian Economics UMass/Amherst
Introduction to Microeconomics UMass/Amherst
Introduction to Macroeconomics UMass/Amherst
Writing in Economics UMass/Amherst
Introduction to Economics University of Puerto Rico
Introduction to Statistics University of Puerto Rico
Math for Economists I University of Puerto Rico
Math for Economists II University of Puerto Rico
Independent Studies Supervised
Understanding Economics and Global Capitalism (Fall 2016)
Special Topics in Economics (Spring 2015)
The Political Economy of Development in Latin America (Fall 2014) The Marxist Dialectical Method (Spring 2010)
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References
Professor Emeritus Richard D. Wolff
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003
(646) 336-8443
Professor Argeo Quiñones Pérez
Department of Economics
University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras, PR 00931
(787)-640-1474
Professor Agustín Laó-Montes
Department of Sociology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003
(413) 219-6043
Last Updated: December, 2017