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Helen Shapiro

  
Helen Shapiro
    Title:  Associate Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Email:  hshapiro@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-3214 Office
    Office:  Provost - Colleges 9 & 10 (Soc Sci 1, Rm 117)
    Office Hours:  Available by appointment

Courses Taught 
Fall 2009: Colleges 9/10 Core

Research Focus 
Political economy; economic development in Latin America; industrial policy; business-government relations.

Education History 
B.A. Hampshire College
Ph.D. Yale University

Selected Publications 
"Review of Export Promotion Policies in Brazil," Integration and Trade, 1998.

Engines of Growth: The State and Transnational Auto Companies in Brazil (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

"Determinants of Firm Entry into the Brazilian Automobile Industry, 1956-1968," Business History Review, 65(4), Winter 1991.

"The State and Industrial Strategy" (with Lance Taylor), World Development 18 (6), June 1990.