Manuel Contreras
E-mail: manuel.e.contreras.c@gmail.comPronomes: He/him
Cargo ou Função: Business history professor
Nome da instituição: Universidad Privada Boliviana
Departamento: Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Emptesariales
Regiões de interesse: Andes, LAC in the World, All Latin America and the Caribbean, South America
Período histórico: Twentieth Century, Twenty-First Century/Contemporary
Subáreas: Engineering, Technology
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Economic Policies
Engineering
Extractivist Economy
State Policy
State Formation
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Formação acadêmica: 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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