Luis Villanueva is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an assistant professor of economics at Denison University where he teaches Macroeconomics and Economic Development. His research interests are economic development, economic history of Latin America and classical political economy. Prior to joining the economics department at Denison University, Luis was an adjunct professor at New Jersey City University in New Jersey and at Fordham University in NYC. He earned his Ph.D. from The New School for Social Research and his MA from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Luis is an active member of the Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Union for Radical Political Economics.