Zacarias Moutoukias

Fernand Braudel / Vasco da Gama Fellow

from September to December 2011

Liaison Professor: J. Flores 

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 515
Email: Zacarias.Moutoukias@eui.eu 

Postal address: 
Department of History and Civilization | Via Boccaccio 121 | 50133 Florence | Italy

Villa Schifanoia - Office VL 36

 

Zacarías Moutoukias is full Professor and Director of the Master “Histoire et Civilisations Comparées” at the University of Paris Diderot, Paris Cité Sorbonne. Previously, he held positions in Spain, (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Economic History and Institutions, Department of Economics) and Argentina (National Research Council - CONICET and National University of Tandil). His main fields of research and teaching are Early Modern History of the Iberian Atlantic and Early Modern and Modern History of Latin America. His researches go across Economic and Political History, exploring approaches like social network analysis (SNA) in the study of economic and political action. An important part of his work in recent years has been the adoption of the tools of SNA in his historical analysis of transnational phenomena. He is now concerned with the dynamics of institutional change, combining relational and institutional analysis especially in the study of tax systems, with a comparison among Spain, Mexico and Rio de la Plata. He published his contributions in journals like Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations ; Annales, Histoire, Sciences Sociales ; Hispanic American Historical Review ; Jahrbuch für Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas and others, besides a book, two series editor and his ‘thèse d’habilitation’ on  ‘Les économies d’Ancien Régime en Amérique espagnole : commerce, réseaux sociaux et dynamiques politiques’

During his stay at the EUI, Prof. Zacarías Moutoukias plans to work on a book about social networks between Spain and the Rio de la Plata, paying attention to the Atlantic dynamics of the factional games and the construction of institutions, in the transition from monarchic to a republican economic order.