César Castillo-García

César Castillo-García

PhD in Economics

The New School for Social Research

Biography

I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the College of Social Studies and the Department of Economics at Wesleyan University. I was a visiting scholar at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) at Havard University. I am a member of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE) and a former 2022 Summer Research Grantee of the History & Political Economy Project of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD). I was awarded twice with the Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholar Prize to attend both the 2022 and 2023 Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society.

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. One of my 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 (an alternative narrative to the Chicago-Boys history). 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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Interests
  • Income & Wealth Inequality
  • Global Economic History & History of Economics
  • Comparative Political Economy
  • History of Economic Thought
  • Labor & Development Economics
  • Economic Growth
  • Latin American Studies
Education
  • PhD in Economics, 2024

    The New School for Social Research

  • Visiting PhD Student, 2022-2023

    Paris School of Economics - World Inequality Lab

  • MA in Economics, 2021

    The New School for Social Research

  • Graduate Studies in Philosophy, 2019

    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

  • Master in Economics, 2015

    Universidad del Pacífico

  • BA in Economics, 2014

    Universidad del Pacífico

Recent & Upcoming Conferences

Shaping Colonial Imaginary: Louis Baudin, L’Empire and the Critique to the Peruvian Land Reform
Factor Income Shares and Capital Accumulation in Peru: 1940-2019
Three Visions About the Crisis of the Peruvian Democracy
Response to Lecture 2: Richard Wolff - Marxist Methodology for Economics
Waves of Neoliberalism. Revisiting the Authoritarian Capitalism in South America
Factor Income Shares and Capital Accumulation in Peru, 1940-2019
Factor Income Distribution and Capital Accumulation in Peru, 1940-2019
Personal Income Distribution in a Peripheral Economy. Peru, 2004-2019
Revisiting the Birth of Neoliberalism in South America. Pedro G. Beltrán, Rómulo Ferrero and the Conservative Economic Development in Peru

Teaching and Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Visiting Assistant Professor
Wesleyan University
Sep 2024 – Present

Courses:

  • Economic History of Latin America since Bretton Woods
  • Introduction to Income and Wealth Inequality: Theory and Empirics
  • History of Economic Thought
  • CSS Junior Economics Tutorial
 
 
 
 
 
Lecturer
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts - The New School
Jan 2021 – May 2024

Courses:

  • Quantitative Reasoning I, II
  • An Intellectual History of Neoliberlism
 
 
 
 
 
Teaching Assistant
The New School for Social Research
Aug 2021 – May 2022

Courses:

  • Historical Foundations of Political Economy I
  • Winter Statistics Camp
  • Computer Language Workshop - Introduction to Machine Learnig with Python
 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern
Human Development Report Office - UNDP
May 2020 – Aug 2020
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Universidad del Pacífico - Escuela de Gestión Pública
Mar 2014 – Jul 2019