Global Financial Markets, Central Bank Policy, and the Struggle for Full Employment: Celebrating Eugenia Correa’s Achievements in Political Economy – an Introductory Note

Abstract

In this introductory piece, the authors reminisce on the role played by the late Eugenia Correa in both Mexico and internationally in developing a counter-hegemonic economic thought that matured in her writings and that was sown in the thinking of a whole generation of students over the last three decades.

Keywords:

• Eugenia Correa
• heterodox economics
• Latin American economic thought

JEL Classifications:

• B3
• B5
• E11
• E12
• O54

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Notes on contributors

Wesley C. Marshall

Wesley C. Marshall is Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa, Mexico, and associate editor of the International Journal of Political Economy.

Mario Seccareccia

Mario Seccareccia is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada and editor of the International Journal of Political Economy. Over the last three decades, he has also been a visiting professor at various universities in France and at UNAM in Mexico.