Towards a Social Balance of the Current Globalization (PDF) 2014
Ugarteche 3346/48, 4⁰
1425, Buenos Aires
Argentina
Former Academicians
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (since 1994) and Councilor (2004-17); Member of the National Academies of Education and of Economic Sciences (Argentina); Director, Centro de Estudios GESE (Gobierno, Empresa, Sociedad y Economía) and Program of Government for the Development of Local Communities' Leaders, and Professor of Economics, IAE-Universidad Austral (since 2000); Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires (1973-75 and 1984), Universidad Católica Argentina (1964, 1982-90), Universidad del Salvador (1967-73), Instituto Di Tella (1985-91), Universidad Austral (since 2000), Universidad Di Tella (since 2012) and Universidad Nacional de La Plata (2014-16); Researcher at National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (1975-2004), Di Tella Institute (1985-91) and Fundación Mediterránea (1982-85 and 1997-99). Prizes from the Professional Council of Economic Sciences (1984) and Argentine Banks Association (1996), both to the best works on Argentine Economic Development; Eisenhower Fellowships Scholarship (1988); Member of the Ordre National du Mérite de la République Française (1994); Konex Award to the five best careers in Applied Economics during the decade (1996) and Public Administration (1998).
Former Minister of Education, Argentine Republic (1999-2000) and Secretary of Economic Programming, Argentine Republic (1991-96). Advisor to the Argentine Bishops' Conference in the National Dialogue (2002). Member of the following Advisory Boards: Criterio (since 1984, almost centennial catholic journal), Fundación Cimientos (since 2002, NGO, Education), Red de Acción Política (since 2003, NGO, politicians training), Secretary of Quality Education Evaluation (since 2016), Argentine Presidential Council Argentina 2030 (since 2016). Columnist of La Nación (Main Argentine newspaper, since 2007). CEO of Estudio Llach, a consultancy firm.
Summary of scientific research
As shown in the list of main publications, my academic activities have been devoted to the following fields and issues. a) Education and social public expenditure; b) Economic Development; c) Fiscal reforms; d) Argentine economic history; e) Hyperinflation and stabilization programs; f) Structure and functioning of labor markets. Underlying these varied fields is the development of an institutional economics / economic sociology approach, i.e. the study of the cultural and social matrix that encompasses the behavior of 'economic agents'.
Main publications
El país de las desmesuras, with Martín Lagos (El Ateneo, 2014); Federales y Unitarios en el siglo XXI (Temas, 2013); Claves del retraso y el progreso de la Argentina, with Martín Lagos et al. (Temas, 2011); En busca de los acuerdos perdidos, Buenos Aires: Editorial Temas, 2010; “The World Demand for Food: An Unprecedented Opportunity for Argentina”, with M. Marcela Harriague, in Feeding the Future, Dutch-Argentine Chamber of Commerce, 90th Anniversary, 1919-2009. “Do longer school days have enduring educational, occupational or income effects? A natural experiment on the effects of lengthening primary school days in Buenos Aires, Argentina”, with Cecilia Adrogué and María Elina Gigaglia, Economía (LACEA), 10, 1 (Fall, 2009); Juan J. Llach (editor, 2008), Summary on Globalization. Main Outcomes of the Work of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on Globalization, Vatican City: The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences; Charity and Justice in the Relations among Peoples and Nations. General Introduction to the Topic, in Mary Ann Glendon, Juan J. Llach and Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (2007, eds), Charity and Justice in the Relations among People and Nations, Vatican City: The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences; El desafío de la equitad educativa. Diagnóstico y propuestas (Buenos Aires: Granica, 2006); Juan J. Llach, Juan Carlos del Bello, Margarita Carratú y Edgardo Margiotta, La educación rural, agropecuaria y agroindustrial de nivel primario, medio y superior. Diagnóstico y propuestas, Buenos Aires: Foro de la Cadena Agroindustrial, 2006; Juan J. Llach and Ricardo Crespo, Conceptions of human beings implicit in economics and in the practice of economic policy, Conceptualizations of the Person in the Social Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2006; The Challenge of International Educational Gaps in the Context of Globalizations, The Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Joint Working Group on Globalization and Education, Vatican City, November 16-17, 2005; Juan J. Llach and M. Marcela Harriague, Un sistema impositivo para el desarrollo y la equidad, Buenos Aires: Fundación Producir Conservando, 2005; Juan J. Llach and Francisco Schumacher, Rich Schools for the Poor. Social Discrimination in Argentine Elementary Education and its Effects on Learning: Diagnosis and some Proposals, Global Development Network, Conference on Education Research in Developing and Transition Countries, Prague, 2005; Juan J. Llach (editor, 2005), El renacer de lo local. Buenas prácticas de gobiernos subnacionales en América Latina, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo and IAE-Universidad Austral; Adrogué, Cecilia and Juan J. Llach, Federalismo fiscal en Suiza, en Juan J. Llach (compilador), El renacer de lo local, op. cit.; Escuelas ricas para los pobres, Inaugural Conference, Academia Nacional de Educación, 2004; Juan J. Llach, M. Marcela Harriague and Ernesto O'Connor, La generación de empleo en las cadenas agroindustriales, Buenos Aires: Fundación Producir Conservando, 2004; Juan J. Llach, Juan Carlos del Bello, Lucas Llach, Eugenia Crespo Armegol, M. Marcela Harriague, Cristina V. de Flood and Ernesto O'Connor, Una estrategia de crecimiento para la Argentina basada en la reconstrucción institucional, el capital humano y la reinserción de la Argentina en el mundo, Buenos Aires: Asociación Empresaria Argentina (2003); El caso argentino. Un nuevo contrato fiscal federal: una reforma para mejorar la competitividad, la correspondencia fiscal, el federalismo y la democracia representativa en la Argentina, IBERGOP (Escuela Iberoamericana de Gobierno y Políticas Públicas); Gobernabilidad: nuevos actores, nuevos desafíos, México: Editorial Porrúa, 2003; Globalization and International Inequalities: Gaps and Poverty in Historical Perspective, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, 2003; Globalization and International Inequalities: Gaps and Poverty in the Long Run, written in cooperation with Flavia Roldán, Globalization and Inequalities, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2002; La industria argentina: 1945-1983, Nueva Historia de la Nación Argentina, Tomo IX, Buenos Aires, Academia Nacional de la Historia, 2002; Un nuevo contrato fiscal federal, Jornadas Internacionales de Finanzas Públicas, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política y Seminario sobre Federalismo del Siglo XXI (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, IAE-Universidad Austral. BID-Intal), Pilar, 2001; Juan J. Llach, Silvia Montoya y Flavia Roldán. Educación para todos, Buenos Aires, IERAL, 1999; Juan J. Llach y Silvia Montoya. En pos de la equidad, Buenos Aires, IERAL, 1999; Otro siglo, otra Argentina, Buenos Aires, Planeta, 1997; Juan J. Llach (director), Ernesto Kritz, Darío Braun, Lucas Llach y Alejandra Torres, Un trabajo para todos, Buenos Aires, Consejo Empresario Argentino, 1997; Labour across the World, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, The Future of Labour and Labour in the Future, Second Plenary Session, 20-23 marzo 1996, Vatican City, 1998; Political Economy, Economic Policies and Human Inequalities, The Study of the Tension between Human Equality and Social Inequalities, Proceedings, First Plenary Session, 1994, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Vatican City, 1996; Políticas de ingresos en la década del noventa – un retorno a la economía política, Buenos Aires, Fundación Hermanos Agustín y Enrique Rocca, 1990; Las hiperestabilizaciones sin mitos, Jornadas de Economía Monetaria y Sector Externo, Banco Central de la República Argentina y Documento de Trabajo 168, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1990; Juan J. Llach (coordinator), Héctor Diéguez y Alberto Petrecolla. El gasto público social, Buenos Aires, Instituto Di Tella, 6 vols. (Proyecto Gobierno Argentino, PNUD, Banco Mundial), 1990; Mercados de trabajo, términos del intercambio externo y salarios reales en el largo plazo. La Argentina y América Latina: 1940-1945, en Javier Villanueva (ed.), Empleo, inflación y comercio internacional, Buenos Aires, Editorial Tesis – Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1988 (1-47); Reconstrucción o estancamiento, Buenos Aires, Editorial Tesis – ADEBA, 1987; Desarrollo económico y justicia social en América Latina. Ideas para una esperanza, Desafíos a la doctrina social de la Iglesia en América Latina, Bogotá, CELAM, 1985; La naturaleza institucional internacional de las hiperestabilizaciones. El caso de Alemania desde 1923 y algunas lecciones para la Argentina de 1985, published in: (a) Documento de Trabajo de Instituto Torcuato Di Tella N. 120, 1985; (b) Anales de la Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, 1986; (c) Desarrollo Económico, 26, 104, enero-marzo de 1987 (527-560).
Professional Address
The Crisis and its Aftermath from the Point of View of the Developing Countries (PDF) 2010
The Right to Education Across Generations (PDF) 2009
The Academy’s Alerts on the Weaknesses of Globalization and the Present Crisis (PDF) 2009
Comment (PDF) 2008
Conclusions and Bases for the Agenda (PDF) 2007
Comment (PDF) 2006
Conceptions of Human Beings Implicit in Economics and in the Practice of Economic Policy (PDF) 2005