Activities

【Lecture】The economies of twin cities on the US-Mexico border

Lecturer James Gerber (Sinior Fellow in the Centerfor  and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Sun Diego State University)
Date 2025.10.24(Fri.) 17:30-19:00
Venue Room 821, 8F Central Library, Sophia University Yotsuya Campus
*Visitors outside Sophia University are kindly asked to register at the library entrance.
Language English
Admission Free
Resistration No registration  is necessary
Sponsored by Iberoamerican Institute, Sophia University
Co-sponsored by Institute of American and Canadian Studies, Sophia University
Dr. James Gerber is a senior Fellow in the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, San Diego State University.  Dr. Gerber was the Director of SDSU’s National Resource Center for Latin American Studies, 2002-2009, and Director of the International Business program, 2009-2012.  His research focuses on the economic history of the US-Mexico border region, US-Mexico relations, and financial crises.  In addition to his recent book, Border Economies:  Cities Bridging the US-Mexico Divide Border, he is the co-author (with Joan Anderson) of Fifty Years of Change on the US-Mexico Border (University of Texas, 2008)an economic history of financial crises,  A Great Deal of Ruin:  Financial Crises since 1929 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and a widely used undergraduate text, International Economics (Pearson Higher Education, 8 editions).  Recent journal articles include “The US-Mexico Border Human Development Index, 1990–2015” (with Joan Anderson) “Does Mexico need free trade with the United States?” (with Yang Liang) and The US Panic of 1907 and the Coming of the Mexican Revolution” (with Thomas Passananti).
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