Stephen De Castro

Stephen De Castro has retired as a full professor from the Department of Economics at the University of Brasília. Before moving to Brazil in 1981, he was at the University of the West Indies as a Research Fellow at the St Augustine, Trinidad campus, and after as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and then Head of the Department of Economics at Mona, Jamaica. After he completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering in Britain, he worked briefly for the Booker Group of Companies in Georgetown, which had helped finance them. He did a MSc. in Operations Research and his PhD is in economics.

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Econ Papers | History or path dependence in mixed-Poisson growth: Brazil, 1822-2000, and USA, 1869-1996, with an estimate of the world mixing distribution at start-up
Universidade de Brasília | Wrong Incentives for Growth in the Transition from Modern Slavery to Firms and Labor Markets: Babylon Before, Babylon After (pdf)
Universidade de Brasília | The great divergence: history or path dependence? Results from the Americas (pdf)
fgv.br | Modern slave plantations to firms and labor markets: incentive theory for a growth disaster (pdf)
Cambridge Journals | The Journal of Economic History

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