Carlos Marichal


Carlos Marichal is a Mexican economic historian who currently works at El Colegio de México, where he has taught since 1989. He has done research and published widely on the economic and financial history of Latin America.
WWW carlosmarichal.colmex.mx

Life and career

He received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University and has been visiting professor at Stanford University, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
His best known work is the book A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America: From Independence to the Great Depression, 1820-1930. Barry Eichengreen wrote about Marichal's book as follows:
He is also the author of Bankruptcy of Empire: Mexican Silver and the Wars Between Spain, Britain, and France. In September 2008, this work received the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize of the Economic History Association of the United States, as “Outstanding Book on North American Economic History”. Almost a year later in August 2009, the same work was awarded the Jaume Vicens Vives Prize of the Spanish Economic History Association, being judged the best book published on the economic history of Spain and Latin America in the biennial period of 2007–2008.
His more recently book publication is Nueva historia de las grandes crisis financieras, 1873-2008. He is also the editor of a dozen collective monographs on the economic history of Latin America, including studies on banking and fiscal history as well as a number of joint studies on history of enterprise in Mexico in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
He is founder and past president of the Mexican Economic History Association, and has served as member of the executive committee of the International Economic History Association from 2000 to 2008. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1994-1995 and a Tinker Fellowship in 1997/98, as well other awards. He is also member of the academic boards of ten international journals on economic history and Latin American history, he is member of the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, at the highest level. From 2003 until 2008 he was a member of the Board of Governors of El Colegio de México.

Books

As author
  • Nueva Historia de las Grandes Crisis Financieras .
  • Bankruptcy of Empire: Mexican Silver and the Wars Between Spain, Britain and France, 1760-1810 .
  • La Bancarrota del Virreinato: 1780-1810: La Nueva España y las Finanzas del Imperio Español. .
  • El primer siglo de la hacienda pública del Estado de México, 1824-1923. with Manuel Miño and Paolo Riguzzi .
  • A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America: From Independence to the Great Depression, 1820-1930 .
  • Historia de la Deuda Externa de América Latina .
  • La Revolución Liberal y los Primeros partidos políticos en España, 1834-1844 .
  • Spain, A New Society, 1834-1844 .
As editor
  • Pensar el Antimperialismo: Ensayos sobre Historia Intelectual de América Latina. ed. with Alexandra Pita..
  • El secreto del imperio: los situados coloniales en el siglo XVIIIed. with Johanna von Grafenstein..
  • La banque francaise en Amérique Latine with Albert Broder..
  • Latinoamérica y España, 1800-1850. Un crecimiento económico nada excepcional ed. with Enrique Llopis.
  • Crear la nación, los nombres de los países de América Latina ed. with José Carlos Chiaramonte and Aimer Granados..
  • Crónica Gráfica de los Impuestos en México, Siglos XVI-XX
  • La Banca Regional en México 1870-1930 ed. with Mario Cerutti.
  • La banca en México, 1820-1920, ed. with Leonor Ludlow..
  • Un siglo de deuda pública en México ed. with Leonor Ludlow.
  • Foreign Investment in Latin America: Impact on Economic Development, 1850-1930.
  • Las inversiones extranjeras en América Latina, 1850-1930: nuevos debates y problemas en historia económica comparada
  • La formación de la banca central en España y América Latina ed. with Pedro Tedde..
  • Banca y Poder en México, 1880-1925ed. with Leonor Ludlow.