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Jose Antonio Alonso Editor

Jose Antonio Alonso is director of the Complutense Institute for International Studies (ICEI) and professor of applied economics at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He is a member of the Committee for Development Policy at the United Nation's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the editor of Principios: Estudios de Economia Politica. His most recent books are Accion Colectiva y Desarrollo: el Papel de las Instituciones, coauthored with Carlos Garcimartin, and Corrupcion, Cohesion Social y Desarrollo, coedited with Carlos Mulas-Granados. Jose Antonio Ocampo is professor in the School of International and Public Affairs and fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He has been a member of the United Nations Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System and has served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Economic and Social Affairs, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Minister of Finance, Agriculture, and Planning for Colombia. His most recent books are Handbook of Latin American Economics, coedited with Jaime Ros, and Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis, coedited with Stephany Griffith-Jones and Joseph E. Stiglitz.