Antonio Ibarra

Antonio Ibarra is Full Professor at the School of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Ph.D. in History from El Colegio de México (México), MA in Economics from UNAM (México) and BA in Economics from the University of Guadalajara. PostDoctoral Fellow at the University of California-San Diego (2001-2002).

Dr. Ibarra is National Researcher, Level II, at the National System for Researchers in Mexico. He was President of the Mexican Association for Economic History between 2005 and 2007. He designed and directed the Specialization in Economic History at the Economics Graduate Studies Department in UNAM. He was Visiting Professor at El Colegio de México between 2011 and 2012. He acts as Co-ordinator of Cooperation and Study Organizations at the Unión de Universidades de América Latina y el Caribe (UDUAL), since 2012.

He has received fellowships and support from CONACyT in Mexico, DAAD in Germany, Banco de España and Fundación Carolina in Spain, and UCSD in the US. He has taught at the universities of Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Sinaloa, Zacatecas, UAM-Xochimilco, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE), El Colegio de México, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) in Mexico, and at the Universidad de Sevilla (1993), Freie Universität Berlin (1999), University of California-San Diego (2001-2002),  Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain (2005), Universidad La República, Uruguay (2005, 2011), Universidad de Buenos Aires (2010), Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá (2010), and Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (2011). 

He has written six books as single autor or editor, among which stand out La organización regional del mercado interno novohispano. La economía colonial de Guadalajara, 1770-1804 (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, 2000); Finanzas y política en el mundo Iberoamericano. Del Antiguo régimen a las naciones independientes, with Ernest Sánchez Santiró and Luis Jáuregui (eds) (México, UAEM, Instituto Mora y UNAM, 2001); Comercio y poder en América colonial. Los Consulados de comerciantes, siglos XVII-XIX; Bernd Hausberger & Antonio Ibarra (eds) (México-Frankfurt,  Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana 93/Vervuert e Instituto Mora, 2003), Böttcher, Nikolaus; Bernd Hausberger y Antonio Ibarra, Antonio (eds.) Redes y negocios globales en el mundo ibérico, siglos XVI-XVIII (Frankfurt, Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana 137, 2011); José Enrique Covarrubias & Antonio Ibarra (eds.), Moneda y mercado. Ensayos Sobre los orígenes de los sistemas monetarios latinoamericanos, siglos XVIII-XX (México DF, Instituto Mora/Facultad de Economía, UNAM, 2014). He has published over 50 articles and chapters in books, in journals that include Historia Mexicana, Cuicuilco, Siglo XIX. Cuadernos de Historia, América Latina en la Historia Económica, Anuario de Estudios Hispanoamericanos (Sevilla), Anuario del Instituto de Estudios Históricos y Sociales (Argentina) Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv (Berlín), Cuadernos de Historia Regional (Argentina), Iberoamericana. América Latina-España-Portugal (Berlín).

His research interests include: Economic historiography; Institutions and economic change in Mexico, 18th-20th centuries; Social networks and comercial institutions, 17th-19th centuries; Mexican monetary and fiscal history, 18th-19th centuries; History of the popular political culture of insurgency, 19th century.

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