César Castillo-García conducts research on the distributive outcomes of economic ideas and institutions, with a focus on Latin America. Employing a two-pronged approach—both qualitative and quantitative—his work explores how neoliberal ideas and policy-making, including fiscal, monetary, and industrial policies, have exacerbated income and wealth tax regressivity and caused a decoupling of wages from productivity in Peruvian capitalism since the 1940s. Castillo-García’s research interests include the history of economics, socio-economic inequality, Latin American economic history, classical political economy, info-metrics, data reconstruction methods, the political economy of precarious work and labor, and social and political philosophy. He has co-authored two books on the economics and political economy of Peru (Riqueza y desigualdad en el Perú. Una visión panorámica and COVID-19: desempleo, desigualdad y precarización en el Perú) and has published in journals such as the CEPAL Review, Análisis Económico, and Investigación Económica. He is a member of the History of Economics Society (HES), the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE), and the Grupo de Investigación en Filosofía Social of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (GIFS-PUCP).

César is an economist born in the Peruvian city of Chimbote, known for its history of deindustrialization and inequality. He holds a B.A. and a master’s degree in economics from the Universidad del Pacífico (Peru) and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from The New School for Social Research, where he was able to merge his interests in the nexus between economics and politics with his passion for transdisciplinary research. César has also been a visiting researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), the Paris School of Economics (PSE), and the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History at Harvard University. He has previously served as a lecturer at the Universidad del Pacífico, the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Peru), and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. Additionally, César has held research positions at Peruvian and international institutions, including the Universidad del Pacífico and the UNDP.