Paul Segal

Paul Segal is a professor of economics at the IAE Business School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics. Before joining the IAE, he was an associate professor at King´s College London. He previously held positions at Oxford and Harvard Universities, and in the United Nations Development Programme. His work focuses on the economics of emerging economies, particularly on inequalities both globally and within countries, poverty, the economics of natural resources, and economic history and development. He has a strong interest in interdisciplinary approaches, combining economic sociology and political economy with the economics of inequality. He also teaches macroeconomics and development economics.

He is a co-author of the CORE Economics project, where he contributed on macroeconomics, inequality, and the economics of developing countries. His current projects include the bases of development failures in Argentina and Mexico; social reproduction and inequality in Argentina; a new approach to teaching high and hyperinflation for  CORE Economics; and global poverty and social spending