Simon Chair Project Archive

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The William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, specializes in trade, investment, and international finance. Below you will find an archive of the work from the previous chair holder Sidney Weintraub.

Sidney Weintraub the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy Emerti, (pictured above), is an economist who specializes on issues of trade, investment, and international finance. Dr Weintraub served as Simon Chair until 2011. Dr. Weintraub has a particular interest in Latin America and Canada.

He devotes much attention to the workings of NAFTA and the progress of economic integration arrangements and trade policy in the hemisphere. Dr. Weintraub provided leadership on an extended study of the automotive industry in North America, The North American Auto Industry under NAFTA.

Recent Publications include:

Unequal Partners: The United States and Mexico (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010)
Energy Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Benefits and Impediments (CSIS, 2007)
Commentaries on International Political Economy: Constructive Irreverence (CSIS, 2004)
Free Trade in the Americas: Economic and Political Issues for Governance and Firms (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004)
NAFTA’s Impact on North America: The First Decade (CSIS, 2004)
Financial Decision-Making in Mexico: To Bet a Nation (Macmillan, 2000)
Development and Democracy in the Southern Cone: Imperatives for U.S. Policy in South America (CSIS, 2000)

Cooperative U.S. - Mexican Antinarcotics Program
Over the past 30 years the United States has failed to adequately address the issue of illegal narcotics use.
Energy Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Benefits and Impediments
Energy Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Benefits and Impediments examines the state of energy cooperation among Western Hemisphere oil and natural gas producers and the opportunities for greater cooperation.
Unequal Partners: The United States and Mexico
Unequal Partners: The United States and Mexico explores the relationship between two neighboring countries—one highly dependent on the other.

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Salvaging Socialism
Jul 29, 2011
Kennon Pearre
Office of the Simon Chair

July 26 marked the 58th anniversary of the unsuccessful military assault on the Moncada army barracks, an attack which initiated the Cuban revolution and is now celebrated yearly. Commemorating this event, Vice President José Ramón Machado Ventura spoke in Ciego de Avila, not just to celebrate the past but to discuss a new struggle Cuba faces today; economic reform. The reforms being implemented throughout the island nation have produced visible changes, but where these reforms are headed remains difficult to tell
Panama’s Economic and Infrastructural Inequality
Jul 21, 2011
Kennon Pearre
Office of the Simon Chair

Panama is the fastest growing economy in Latin America, according to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with 8.5 percent growth expected in 2011. Visible signs of this economic boom abound in Panama City, which boasts new high rises and a $1.2 billion subway system under construction. These investments, coupled with the $5.3 billion expansion of the Panama Canal, have made Panama a regional leader in economic and urban development. However, the aggressive push for a modern skyline has neglected basic infrastructural requirements, forcing the government to scramble to meet basics needs.