Paul Segal

I am a Profesor of Economics at the IAE Business School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics. Before joining the IAE I was Associate Professor at King´s College London, and I have previously held positions at Oxford and Harvard Universities, and the United Nations Development Programme. My work focuses on the economics of emerging economies, particularly on inequalities both globally and within countries, poverty, the economics of natural resources, and economic history and development. I have a strong interest in interdisciplinary approaches, combining economic sociology and political economy with the economics of inequality. My teaching focuses on macroeconomics and development in emerging economies, and I have written policy articles discussing current macroeconomic topics for FT.com, the Guardian and Argentine media (see below).

I am a co-author of the CORE Economics project, where I contributed on macroeconomics, inequality, and the economics of developing countries, and my standalone chapter, The sky’s the limit: The economics of inflation and hyperinflation, is forthcoming.

My current projects include the bases of development failures in Argentina and Mexico; social reproduction and inequality in Argentina; and global poverty and social spending.

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Commentaries and articles in the press

Milei y el monetarismo (Infobae)

¿Déficit fiscal cero para siempre? (Infobae)

El papa y la desigualdad (Perfil) 

La tasa, no el déficit, es el problema histórico en la Argentina (La Nacion)

Commentaries in the IAE Informe Económico: August 2025; July 2025; June 2025

No somos iguales: Special issue and website of Chilango magazine on our project (with Ingrid Bleynat) on multidimensional inequalities in Mexico City.

Older policy articles for FT.com and the Guardian