Carlos Marichal has been Research Professor of Latin American History at the El Colegio de Mexico since 1989. He received his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University (1977) and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University (1998 1999), the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (1996), the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1994), the Universidad Autonoma, Barcelona (1990 1993 and 2009) and the Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1987). In September 2008, Bankruptcy of Empire received the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize of the Economic History Association of the United Status