Manuel Contreras

E-mail: manuel.e.contreras.c@gmail.com
Pronombres: He/him
Posición: Business history professor
Afiliación institucional: Universidad Privada Boliviana
Departamento: Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Emptesariales

País/Región: Andes, LAC in the World, All Latin America and the Caribbean, South America
Época: Twentieth Century, Twenty-First Century/Contemporary
Sub-áreas: Engineering, Technology
Palabras clave:
Economic Policies Engineering Extractivist Economy State Policy State Formation



Lenguaje(s):
English


Educación:

University of Nottingham (BSc 1979)
London School of Economics (MA 1980)
Columbia University (PhD 1990).


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Sobre mi:

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.


Libros:

El surgimiento de la ingeniería en Bolivia: Formación y ejercicio de la profesión, 1900-1964 (La Paz; Plural editors, 2022)


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Curriculum vitae digital: View here
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