Lorenzo Fusaro
lorenzo.fusaro@azc.uam.mx

Lorenzo Fusaro holds a PhD in International Political Economy from King's College London and is a Full Professor C in the Department of Economics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco Unit. He is a member of the National System of Researchers and Head of the Area of ​​Society and Capitalist Accumulation (ASAC). Before joining the UAM, he taught at the University of Cambridge and King's College London. His recent publications include Crises and Hegemonic Transitions: From Gramsci's Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy (Brill, 2019), Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks (Brill, 2020, edited with Francesca Antonini, Aaron Bernstein, and Robert Jackson), and The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation in Latin America and Beyond (Lexington Books, 2022, edited with Leinad Alcalá). He is currently working on a new monograph entitled Revolutions, Dependency and Geopolitical Autonomy: The Emergence of Hegemonic and Subordinated States (forthcoming with Routledge).

Areas of interest: International Political Economy; Hegemony, Dependency, and Imperialism; History of Capitalism

Abelardo Mariña Flores
abmf@azc.uam.mx

Abelardo Mariña is a full professor in the Research Area Society and Capitalist Accumulation (ASAC) of the Department of Economics at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), Azcapotzalco, since 1985. He was head of that research area in two periods in 1990 and 2000, and head of the department during 2014-2018. Since 2019 he is Coordinator of Strategic Links at the Azcapotzalco Unit of the UAM.

He holds a degree from the UAM-Azcapotzalco. Master's and PhD in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has taught more than 170 courses in Marxist Political Economy, Labor Economics, International Economics, Capital Accumulation in Mexico, History of the development of capitalism in Latin America since 1985. He has been an advisor for 41 undergraduate and graduate theses.

He is a founding member of several progressive academic associations and networks worldwide, such as the Latin American Society of Political Economy and Critical Thought (SEPLA) since 2005 and the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPE) since 2010.

His research has focused on Marxist theories of value, labor exploitation, accumulation, and crises; the world market and globalization; capital accumulation in Latin America and Mexico; employment, productivity, and wages. He has published two books, 48 ​​chapters, and 28 articles; and has coordinated 11 books.

Areas of Interest: Marxist theories of value; World Market and Globalization; Employment, Productivity, and Wages.

Sergio Cámara Izquierdo
scamara@azc.uam.mx

Sergio Cámara Izquierdo is a full professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM-Azcapotzalco), where he served as Head of the Department of Economics from 2018 to 2024, Head of the Research Area on Society and Capitalist Accumulation (ASAC) from 2013 to 2018, and Coordinator of the Political Economy Curriculum from 2010 to 2014.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the National University "Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo" in Peru. His research interests include applied political economy, especially the analysis of capitalist macroeconomic dynamics, and the labor theory of value. He has published a total of 15 articles and 22 book chapters in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and has coordinated six collective books.

Areas of Interest: Labor Theory of Value; Dynamic Capitalist Macroeconomics; Financialization and Fictitious Capital.

María Josefa Montalvo Morales
mjmm@azc.uam.mx

María Josefa Montalvo is a professor of economics at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM-Azcapotzalco). She holds a degree in economics from the UAM and postgraduate studies in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

She has taught various classes and seminars on political economy, agricultural economics, macroeconomics, and labor economics.

Her work involves organizing activities between students and communities to produce local products and build greenhouses and gardens. She also interacts with various businesses in the metropolitan area, including cooperatives, collective projects, and small factories. Among other activities, she researches and analyzes average labor market conditions related to environmental impact to find alternatives in the social solidarity economy.

Areas of Interest: Political economy, labor theory and labor economics.

José de Jesus Lechuga Montenegro
montenegro@azc.uam.mx

Jesús Lechuga is a full-time research professor at the Department of Economics at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM-Azcapotzalco). He holds a PhD in Economics from the UAM. He was a member of the UAM postgraduate committee in economic sciences, a PROMEP profile professor, and a Secretary of Public Education (SEP). He is a level I national researcher. He is also a member of the academic staff of the Area of ​​Capitalist Society and Accumulation (ASAC), coordinator of seven scientific books, and author of five books on the Mexican economy. He has published numerous academic articles in specialized journals on development and financialization. His main lines of research are Economic Development Theory, Political Economy of Accumulation, and the Economic Structure of Mexico.

Areas of Interest: Political Economy; Capitalist Accumulation; Economic Structure of Mexico.

Miguel Ángel Barrios
mbarrios333@yahoo.com.mx

Miguel Ángel Barrios is a full-time professor in the Department of Economics at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), Azcapotzalco Unit, and holds a PhD in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Areas of Interest: Political economy, Economic development and technological change.

Carlos Salas Páez

Carlos Salas holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Higher School of Physics and Mathematics of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN). He holds a Master's degree in Mathematical Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a PhD in Economics from the Faculty of Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research interests include labor economics, and he has published articles in national and international journals.

He has taught at the Center for Trade Union and Labor Economic Studies (CESIT), El Colegio de Tlaxcala, and in the Faculty of Economics at UNAM. He also taught at the Iztapalapa University of the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM). He is currently a professor at UAM-Azcapotzalco. His main line of research is labor economics, with an emphasis on employment in micro-units, precariousness, and occupational segregation, topics on which he has published numerous articles and book chapters.

Areas of Interest: Political economy, labor economy.