Roberto Cortes Conde is Professor Emeritus of Economy at the Universidad de San Andres in Argentina. He is Honorary President of the International Economic History Association. He is co-editor, with Victor Bulmer-Thomas and John Coatsworth, of The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (2006) and co-editor, with Michael D. Bordo, of Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World: Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries (2001).