Department: Economía

Area: Economic History and Institutions

Research group: h-ECOS Historia, Economía y Sociedad

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Email: collantesfernando@uniovi.es

Personal web: https://www.fernandocollantes.es/

Doctor by the Universidad de Cantabria with the thesis El declive demográfico y económico de las zonas de montaña en España un análisis a largo plazo (1850-2000) 2003. Supervised by Dr. Rafael Domínguez Martín.

I am Professor of Socio-Economic History at the University of Oviedo (Spain). I started my career as a Ph.D. student of Economics at the University of Cantabria and soon moved to the University of Zaragoza, where I would stay for almost twenty years, to become an assistant professor (and later associate professor) of socio-economic history. I have held visting positions at the universities of the Italian Switzerland and Lund (Sweden). My research is about food consumption in affluent societies, rural depopulation and development, the European Union's agricultural policy, and economic thought on consumer society. I have a particular interest in applying a long-term perspective to the study of current socioeconomic problems.