Professor of History of Economic Thought at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences of said university (2007-2011). He published several books and numerous articles on the History of Economic Thought, among which Pablo de Olavide (1725-1803), the Ilustrado (l993) and The Political Economy of the Decline of Castile in the 17th Century (1996); with J. Reeder Mercantilismo: Política Económica y Estado Nacional (1998) y Diccionario de Historia del Pensamiento Económico (2003), together with Manuel Santos, Economía y Literatura (2006), Elena Gallego, Mujeres economistas (2007) and Thomas Baumert, La hora de los economistas. Entrevistas a cuarenta economistas españoles que han contribuido a la modernización de la economía española (2010). Collaborator of Adam Smith Across Nations led by Cheng-chung Lai (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000) and Spanish economics and economists (Barcelona, ​​FUNCAS-Gutenberg-Círculo de Lectores, 1999-2004) led by Enrique Fuentes Quintana. He was director of Libros de Economía y Empresa, a book review magazine co-edited by the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and the Caja Duero Foundation (2006-2011). He was visiting professor at the Universities of New York and Harvard.

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