Manuel Contreras
Email: manuel.e.contreras.c@gmail.comPronouns: He/him
Position: Business history professor
Institutional Affiliation: Universidad Privada Boliviana
Department: Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Emptesariales
Regions of Interest: Andes, LAC in the World, All Latin America and the Caribbean, South America
Time Periods: Twentieth Century, Twenty-First Century/Contemporary
Subareas: Engineering, Technology
Keywords:
Economic Policies
Engineering
Extractivist Economy
State Policy
State Formation
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Education: University of Nottingham (BSc 1979)
London School of Economics (MA 1980)
Columbia University (PhD 1990).
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Business History professor at the Universidad Privada Boliviana. Bolivian economic historian trained at the London School of Economics (MA 1980) and Columbia University (PhD 1990). Member of the Bolivian Academy of History. My current research focuses on the economic and social history of railways in Bolivia from 1880 to 2020, business history, and the history and policy of Bolivian education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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El surgimiento de la ingeniería en Bolivia: Formación y ejercicio de la profesión, 1900-1964 (La Paz; Plural editors, 2022)
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