here - Joao Paulo A. de Souza

Apr/2016
Joao Paulo A. de Souza
Warner Hall 502D
Middlebury College
Middleury, VT 05753
Phone: +1 (802 ) 443-5796
[email protected]
ACADEMIC POSITION
Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College (since Fall 2015).
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, PhD Economics (2015)
University of Sao Paulo, MA Economics (2007)
University of Sao Paulo, BA Economics (2004)
FIELDS
Economic Growth and Development, Macroeconomics.
PUBLICATIONS
‘Biased Technical Change in Agriculture and Industrial Growth’. Metroeconomica (Forthcoming).
‘Real wages and labor-saving technical change: evidence from a panel of manufacturing industries in
mature and labor-surplus economies’. International Review of Applied Economics (Forthcoming).
‘Evidence of growth complementarity between agriculture and industry in developing countries’,
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 34 (2015) 1-18.
‘Entre of Sentido da Colonizacao e o Arcaismo como Projeto: superando um dilema atraves do
conceito de capital Escravista-Mercantil’, Estudos Economicos 38 (1) 2008. [In Portuguese]
Reprinted in del Nero, I. and Pires, J.M. (orgs.) ‘O capital Escravista-Mercantil e a escravidao nas
Americas’, Sao Paulo:Educ, 2010.
WORKING PAPERS
Sectoral net lending in six financial centers (with Gerald Epstein). Political Economy Research
Institute (PERI) Working Paper 346, March 2014.
WORK IN PROGRESS
The Political Economy of Biased Technical Change in Brazilian Agriculture (1950-1980).
The Paradox of Mexico’s Export Boom Without Growth: A Demand-Side Explanation (with
Leopoldo Gomez-Ramirez).
An empirical analysis of Minsky regimes in the US economy (with Leila Davis and Gonzalo
Hernandez-Jimenez).
PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
2016: Eastern Economics Association (Washington DC, USA).
2014: Eastern Economics Association (Boston, USA), Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty,
Development and Globalization (Bangalore, India), Umass-New School Graduate Student Workshop (Amherst, USA).
2013: Institute for New Economic Thinking YSI Meeting (Trento, Italy), Institute of New Economic Thinking YSI Workshop (Hong Kong), Eastern Economics Association (New York, USA).
2012: International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (Paris, France), Umass-New
School Graduate Student Workshop (Amherst, USA).
TEACHING
Middlebury College (2015-present): The Macroeconomics of Development, Macroeconomic Theory.
Smith College (2014): Introduction to Microeconomics.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2009-2014): International Trade, International Monetary
Theory, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Labor Economics.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Political Economy Research Institute Dissertation Fellowship, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Spring 2015.
Political Economy Research Institute Travel Grant, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. July
2012
Red Latinoamericana de Macrouniversidades, Research Fellowship for Graduate Student Exchange
(spent at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, UNAM, Spring 2007).
Graduate Fellowship, Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil.
(Mar/2006-Jun/2007).
Graduate Fellowship, Fundacao Instituto de Pesquisas Economicas, University of Sao Paulo. (Jan/2005Mar/2006).
Academic Excellency Award for Best Undergraduate Senior Paper of 2004. Department of Economics, University of Sao Paulo.
Undergraduate Scientific Initiation Research Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of
Sao Paulo (Sep/2003-Sep/2004).
LANGUAGES
Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent).