Jay Pan

Jay Pan is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American History at Columbia University. His interests include the history of industrial policy, finance, international trade, and the labor movement in Latin America. His research focuses on the historical political economy of Mexico’s industrial policy in the twentieth century, particularly the relationship between businesses, the labor movement and the state.

He is also interested in the history of economic thought in Latin America, particularly the debates surrounding Keynesian economics as well as how the various conceptualizations of underdevelopment informed the strategies of the socialist left. He was previously educated at the London School of Economics (LSE) where he completed his B.A. in History and M.Sc. in Economic History (Research).