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David Barkin is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. Dr. Barkin earned his Ph.D. in economics at Yale University in 1966. He was a founding member of the Ecodevelopment Center in 1974 and was a recipient of the National Prize in Political Economy in 1979. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and was appointed as an Emeritus Member of the National Research Council. In 2015, he was awarded a Georg Forster Chair at the Humboldt University (Berlin) to pursue research on the socio-economic and political impacts of climate change in Latin America, promoting collaboration between German and Latin American researchers. He is the author of several books focusing on Mexican economic development, food systems analysis, and sustainable development; including: Distorted Development: Mexico in the World Economy (1990), and Mexican Innovations in Water Management (2001). His 1998 book, Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable Development, enjoys wide circulation can be downloaded free of charge. His current research focuses on the construction of post-capitalist societies and their ability to adapt to the triple crisis: social, economic, and environmental.