Past Street Scholar Recipients
2012 James H. Street Scholar
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira is emeritus professor of Getulio Vargas Foundation, where he teaches economics, political theory and social theory. He is president of the Centro de Economia Política (Economic Political Center) and editor of Brazilian Journal of Political Economy since 1981. He was Minister of Finance, of Federal Administration and State Reform, and of Science and Technology. His major intellectual influences come from Marx, Weber, Keynes, and from Latin American structuralism.
His books include:
- Development and Crisis in Brazil (1968/2003)
- A Sociedade Estatal e a Tecnoburocracia (1980)
- The Theory of Inertial Inflation, with Yoshiaki Nakano (1984)
- Lucro, Acumulação e Crise (1986)
- A Crise do Estado (1992)
- Economic Reforms in New Democracies, with Adam Przeworski and José María Maravall (1993)
- Reforma do Estado para a Cidadania (1998)
- Democracy and Public Management Reform (2004)
- Mondialisation et Compétition (2009) published in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
2013 James H. Street Scholar
Roberto Frenkel
Roberto Frenkel is Principal Research Associate at CEDES (from 1977) and Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (from 1984). Presently he is also Director of the Graduate Program on Capital Markets (University of Buenos Aires) and teaches graduate courses at the Di Tella and FLACSO-San Andrés Universities in Argentina. He was Professor at the University of Chile, University Católica de Chile, University Central de Venezuela and also visiting professor at the University of California (San Diego), University Católica de Rio de Janeiro and University of Pavia (Italy). He has also taught courses and has given lectures at other Argentine and foreign universities.
He has been a consultant of several international organizations including UN, ILO, UNCTAD, UNDP, ECLAC, and he has also worked for the OECD Development Center, IDB, UNIDO and the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela and Uruguay. He was Undersecretary Chief of Economics Advisors to the Ministry of Finance (1985-89) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (1999-2003) both in Argentina. He is a member of the Board of the World Institute for Development Economic Research (WIDER), United Nations University. He was a member of the UNDP Advisers Group. He published numerous books and articles in academic journals on macroeconomic theory and policy, money and finance, inflation and stabilization policies and labor market and income distribution, with special focus on Argentina and Latin America.