Atilio A. Boron is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Buenos Aires and Executive Secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). He is a political scientist and sociologist educated in Argentina and Chile, and holds a doctoral degree from Harvard University. He has taught for many years in some of the most important academic institutions of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Puerto Rico. In the United States he was visiting professor at the universities of Columbia, MIT, Notre Dame and UCLA, and in Europe he lectured at Warwick and Bradford in England. He has published widely in several languages a variety of books and articles on political theory and philosophy, social theory, and comparative studies on the capitalist development in the periphery.
