CURRICULUM VITAE Javier Cuenca Present Position: Professor of

CURRICULUM VITAE Javier Cuenca Present Position: Professor of

CURRICULUM VITAE
Javier Cuenca
Present Position:
Professor of Economics, University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Telephone: Office (519) 885-1211, ext. 33567
E-mail address: <[email protected]>
POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Sept 1972-May 1978 Ph.D. Degree in Economic History, University of Toronto
Jan 1971-Apr 1972
Master of Arts in Quantitative Economics, Western Michigan University
Oct 1963-June 1968 Five-year Degree in Economics, University of Madrid
POSITIONS HELD
July 1995-Present
Professor (tenured), Department of Economics, University of Waterloo
July 1983-June 1995 Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Economics, University of
Waterloo
Sept 1980-May 1982 Visiting Professor, Erindale College, University of Toronto
Sept 1978-June 1983 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo
Sept 1976-Apr 1977 Special Lecturer, Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto
Sept 1968-July 1969 Assistant Teacher of Spanish, Devizes Grammar School, Wiltshire, England
RESEARCH FIELDS
International Trade (UK, US, Spain, France: 1716-1820)
Price History (UK, US, Spain, France, Spanish America: 1716-1820)
TEACHING FIELDS
European Economic History (16th century to the present)
Principles of Economics and Intermediate Microeconomics
PUBLICATIONS
Cuenca-Esteban, Javier, "British “Ghost” Exports, American Middlemen, and the Trade to
Spanish America. 1790-1819”, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 71, no.1
(January 2014), pp. 63-98.
Cuenca-Esteban, Javier, "Was Spain a viable Fiscal-Military State on the eve of the French
wars?", in The spending of states. Military expenditure during the long eighteenth
century: patterns, organisation, and consequences, 1650-1815, eds. Stephen Conway
and Rafael Torres Sánchez, Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2011, pp. 247-56.
Cuenca-Esteban, Javier, "Current values of British imports from the United States, 17901820: Estimates and independent tests", in Worlds of History and Economics. Essays
in Honour of Andrew M. Watson, ed. Brian A. Catlos, Valencia: Universitat de
València, 2009, pp. 191-207.
Cuenca-Esteban, Javier, "Statistics of Spain's colonial trade 1747-1820: New estimates and
comparisons with Great Britain", Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian
and Latin American Economic History, XXVI, 3 (2008), pp. 323-354.
Cuenca-Esteban, Javier, "India's contribution to the British balance of payments, 17571812", Explorations in Economic History, 44/1 (January 2007), pp. 154-176.
Cuenca-Esteban, Javier, "Fiscal dimensions of Britain's regulated trade with Asia, 17651812", in War, State and Development. Fiscal-Military States in the Eighteenth
Century, ed. R. Torres Sánchez, Pamplona (Spain): Ediciones Universidad de
Navarra, S.A. (EUNSA), 2007, pp. 69-85.
Cuenca-Esteban, Javier, "Cargoes, Freight, 1450 to the Present", in John J. McCusker, Louis
Cain, Stanley Engerman, and Kenneth Pomeranz, eds., History of World Trade since
1450, Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "Comparative patterns of colonial trade: Britain and its rivals", in
Exceptionalism and Industrialisation. Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815, ed.
Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp.
35-66.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "The British balance of payments, 1772-1820: India transfers and
war finance", Economic History Review, LIV, 1 (Feb. 2001), pp. 58-86.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "Factory costs, market prices, and Indian calicos: Cotton textile
prices revisited, 1779-1831", Economic History Review, LII, no. 4 (Nov. 1999), pp.
749-755.
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Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "The Rising Share of British Industrial Exports in Industrial Output,
1700-1851", Journal of Economic History, vol. 57, no. 4 (Dec. 1997), pp. 879-906.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "Further evidence of falling prices of cotton cloth, 1768-1816",
Economic History Review, XLVIII, 1 (February 1995), pp. 145-150.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "British textile prices, 1770-1831: Are British growth rates worth
revising once again?", Economic History Review, XLVII, 1 (February 1994), pp. 66105.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "Precios y cantidades en el comercio español con Francia y Gran
Bretaña, 1797-1807: Coyuntura internacional y opciones imperiales", Revista de
Historia Económica, IX (Winter 1991), pp. 127-163.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "The Markets of Latin American Exports, 1790-1820: A
Comparative Analysis of International Prices", in Growth and Integration in the
Atlantic Economy, eds. Lyman L. Johnson and E. Tandeter, University of New
Mexico Press, 1990, pp. 373-399.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "Fundamentos para una interpretación de las estadísticas
comerciales francesas, 1787-1821, con referencia especial al comercio franco
español", Hacienda Pública Española, no. 108/109 (Sept.-Oct. 1987), pp. 221-251.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "Trends and Cycles in U.S. Trade with Spain and the Spanish
Empire, 1790-1819", Journal of Economic History, XLIV (June 1984), pp. 521-543.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "Of Nimble Arrows and Faulty Bows: A Call for Rigor", Hispanic
American Historical Review, 64 (May 1984), pp. 297-303.
Cuenca-Esteban, Javier, "The United States Balance of Payments with Spanish America and
the Philippine Islands, 1790-1819: Estimates and Analysis of Principal Components",
in The North American Role in the Spanish Imperial Economy, 1776-1819, eds. J.
Barbier and A. Kuethe, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984, pp. 28-70
and 198-209.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "Comercio y Hacienda en la caída del Imperio español, 1778-1826",
in La economía española al final el Antiguo Régimen, III. Comercio y Colonias, ed. J.
Fontana, Madrid, Bank of Spain/Alianza Editorial, 1982, pp. 389-453.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "Statistics of Spain's Colonial Trade, 1792-1820: Consular Duties,
Cargo Inventories, and Balances of Trade", Hispanic American Historical Review, 61
(August 1981), pp. 381-428.
Cuenca Esteban, Javier, "Ingresos netos del Estado español, 1788-1820", Hacienda Pública
Española, 69 (March-April 1981), pp. 183-208.
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Book Reviews
Review of Las estadísticas históricas del comercio internacional: fiabilidad y
comparabilidad, by Antonio Tena Junguito (Madrid, 1992), in Revista de Historia
Económica, XIII, No. 1 (Winter 1995), pp. 164-166.
Review of La independencia americana: consecuencias económicas, eds. Leandro Prados and
Samuel Amaral (Madrid, 1993), in Revista de Historia Económica, XII, No. 2
(Spring-Summer 1994), pp. 448-452.
Review of El Banco de San Carlos 1788-1831, by Pedro Tedde (Madrid, 1989), in Revista de
Historia Económica, VII, No. 3 (Fall 1989), pp. 732-735.
Review of Comercio exterior y crecimiento económico en España, 1826-1913, by Leandro
Prados (Madrid, 1982), in Revista de Historia Económica, II, No. 1 (Winter 1984),
pp. 202-204.
Review of Comercio exterior de Veracruz, 1778-1821, by Javier Ortiz (Seville, 1978), in
Moneda y Crédito, No. 148 (March 1979), pp. 132-134.