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Blending economics, development, and human rights: A profile of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Motivated by a desire to improve the lives of those in his native country, Cuba, the economist became come one of the youngest full professors at Yale, an expert on Latin American economics, and an advocate for U.S.-Cuba relations. The legacy of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro – at Yale and in Latin American scholarship  By Lisa Qian March 29, 2021 One of Yale’s most influential and prominent economics professors n...

It was April 1964, and a new military government had seized power in a coup d’état and removed Furtado from his government post, labeling him a communist. The invitation the journalist delivered was from Yale’s economics department, proposing that Furtado come spend the first year of his exile in New Haven as a visiting professor and scholar at the Economic Growth Center (EGC). Faced with the prospect of arrest for any public activity in Brazil over the next ten years and knowing that many...