Guy Pierre

Guy Pierre holds a Ph.D. in history and a master’s degree in economic sociology. He teaches at the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) and is a member of Mexico’s National Research System (SNI). In 2010, he joined a group of colleagues from various Latin American and European universities and research centers in founding the Caribbean Economic History Association (AHEC). He also collaborates with colleagues from several international economic history associations.

The project

Title: The National Association of French Holders of Foreign Securities and the Loans of Latin American Countries in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries: an instrument of Financial Pressure and Bank Collusion (1870/80-1914/24)

"This project builds on several previous studies on debt and the establishment of central banks in Caribbean plantation economies during the period 1947–1979. It also builds on research into the establishment of French commercial banks in the Caribbean in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its purpose is to examine the role that small French bondholders played in this wave of bank establishment in the region and in other countries on the continent. It draws on several manuscript sources, newspaper articles, and reports from the Association (ANPFVE), which small bondholders had founded in 1898 to defend their interests against issuing governments that, during periods of political and economic crisis, found ways to avoid honoring their obligations. It also addresses the banks that did everything in their power during these periods—often in collusion with other European financial institutions, particularly British ones—to increase their profits at the expense of the small shareholders."

Selective Bibliography

• Deux Etudes sur la Dette Souveraine d’Haiti aux XIXe et XXe Siècles. Une approche des mythes de l’historiographie nationale (1825-1968). Eliva Press 2026
• Trois Etudes sur la banque en Haiti et dans la Caraibe (1870/80-1947/49), CIDIHCA, Montréal, 2021.
• Las economías de plantación del Caribe hispano durante la Gran Depresión: Permanencia y cambios en los modelos de desarrollo, in: María Cecilia Zuleta y otros (Coords) La formación del mundo latinoamericano, El Colegio de Mexico, 2022.
• Notas para la historia económica de Haití durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX (1947/1950-1995-2004), in: O. Zanetti et Antonio Santamaria (Coords), Economías y desarrollo en el Caribe (1950-2000), Editorial  UNIMAGDALENA-CSIC, 2023
• L’implantation et l’éviction de la banque française dans la Caraïbe entre la fin du XIXe siècle et le XXe, in : (Historia e Economia, Sao Paulo, 2012) ;
• Ciclos políticos largos en América Latina durante el siglo XX y sus efectos en el crecimiento económico, Revista Problemas del Desarrollo, UNAM, 2004