2022: PhD at the University of Bremen with the dissertation: "Argentine Social Policy and the International Labor Organization (ILO), 1919-1943. Debates, Conflicts and Cooperation". First examiner: Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels (Univ. Bremen), Second examiner: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Stefan Rinke (FU Berlin).
2019-2022: PhD student and research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy and at the Chair of Latin American History at the University of Bremen
2016-2019: Studied economic and social history at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Title of Master's thesis: "Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Argentina. Economic, social and cultural determinants using the example of German immigrants"
2017: Study abroad at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
2012-2016: Studied political economy (economics) at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Research interests: Economic history, business history, globalization, global south, general topics of political economy.
IW Publications
Fremerey, Melinda / Gerards Iglesias, Simon, 2022, Abhängigkeit – Was bedeutet sie und wo besteht sie?, IW-Report, Nr. 56, Berlin / Köln Zur Studie
Gerards Iglesias, Simon / Hüther, Michael, 2022, Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung durch Rückschritt – zu den Perspektiven der russischen Volkswirtschaft, IW-Report, Nr. 51, Köln Zur Studie
External Publications
Gerards Iglesias, Simon, Inmigración y empresariado transnacional en Argentina a finales del siglo XIX. Los Weil y los Staudt, entre Alemania y Argentina". Cuadernos del Archivo VI/1, Nr. 10 (2022): 26-45.
Gerards Iglesias, Simon: Argentinische Sozialpolitik und die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation (ILO), 1919-1943. Debatten, Konflikte und Kooperationen. Dissertation, Universität Bremen, 2022.
Gerards Iglesias, Simon, Social Reforms and the Fear of Economic Backlash: Political Debates on Social Policy and Transnational Influences in Argentina in the 1930s, in: Nullmeier, Frank; González de Reufels, Delia; Obinger, Herbert, International Impacts on Social Policy. Short Histories in Global Perspective. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (Global Dynamics of Social Policy), S. 345-358. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-86645-7_27
Dependence - What does it mean and where does it exist?
Melinda Fremerey / Simon Gerards Iglesias
The concept of dependency has been at the center of most recent policy debates. The German economy's dependence on exports, Europe's military dependence on the USA and, not least, the Germans' dependence on Russian gas - dependencies seem omnipresent and at the same time hardly solvable.
Economic development through regression - on the prospects for the Russian economy
Simon Gerards Iglesias / Michael Hüther
The war in Ukraine will have profound geopolitical and economic consequences for Russia. The West has imposed sanctions on Russia on an unprecedented scale, largely dissolving decades of economic interdependence.
Simon Gerards Iglesias / Michael Hüther IW
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