César Castillo-García

César Castillo-García

Visiting Graduate Student, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (spring 2024).
PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research.
Cesar Castillo-Garcia

I am a PhD candidate in economics at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) and a visiting doctoral student at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). My current research focuses on the study of income and wealth inequality and political conflict, the history of neoliberalism and capitalism, econophysics applications to inequality research, the political economy of precarious work, and social and political philosophy. I am a member of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE), the History of Economics Society (HES) and also a 2022 Summer Research Grantee of the History & Political Economy Project of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD). One of my dissertation chapters is titled Waves of Neoliberalism: Revisiting the Authoritarian Capitalism in South America and explores how transnational intellectual networks have framed economic development and incepted neoliberal common sense in Peru since the 1940s (before the Chilean Chicago Boys). In my other project, Long-run Income Inequality in 20th Century Peru, I intend to reconstruct the Distributional National Accounts (DINA) for the Peruvian economy using long-run factor income shares, inheritance and microeconomic income data.

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