Development Economic Geography Latin America Policy

Ph.D., M.A. Michigan State University

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS J.J. Biles. 2010. Redes globales de producción y políticas de desarrollo regional en Yucatán, México. Revista Ciudades 87, 24-30. J.J. Biles. 2010. Chronicle of a debt foretold: Mexico’s FOBAPROA debacle and lessons for the U.S. financial crisis. Progress in Development Studies 10, 3, 261-266. J.J. Biles & T. Lindley. 2009. Globalization, geography, and the liberation of overseas study. Journal of Geography 108, 3, 148-154. G. Veeck & J.J. Biles. 2009. Geography, geographers, and study abroad. Journal of Geography 108, 3, 92-93. J.J. Biles. 2009. Informal work in Latin America: Recent debates and competing perspectives. Geography Compass 3, 1, 214-236. J.J. Biles. 2008. Informal work and livelihoods in Mexico: Getting by or getting ahead? The Professional Geographer 60, 4, 541-555. J.J. Biles et al. 2007. Globalization of food retailing in southeastern Mexico: Transformation of supply networks and consequences for small-scale agricultural producers. Journal of Latin American Geography 6, 2, 55-75. J.L. Scarpaci & J.J. Biles. 2007. Globalization and Latin American geography: linking scales of analysis. Journal of Latin American Geography 6, 2, 7-10. J.J. Biles. 2005. Globalization of banking and local access to financial resources: a case study from southeastern Mexico. The Industrial Geographer 2, 2, 159-173. J.J. Biles. 2004. Export-oriented industrialization and regional development: a case study of maquiladora production in Yucatán, Mexico, Regional Studies 38, 5, 517-532. J.J. Biles. Regional development and maquiladora production: the rapid rise and demise of the EOI strategy in Yucatán, Mexico. Revista Imes de Administração 60, 48-66. J.J. Biles. 2003. Using spatial econometric techniques to estimate spatial multipliers: an assessment of regional economic policy in Yucatán, Mexico, The Review of Regional Studies 33, 2, 121-141. J.J. Biles, L. Robison and M. Siles. 2002. Export-oriented industrialization, the state, and social capital: A case study of maquiladora production in Yucatán, Mexico, Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 25, 157-165. J.J. Biles & B.W. Pigozzi. 2000. The interaction of economic reforms, socio-economic structure and agriculture in Mexico, Growth and Change 31, 1, 3-20. BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES G. Veeck & J.J. Biles, eds. 2009. Geography, Geographers, and Study Abroad. Special issue: Journal of Geography 108, 3, 91-154. J.L. Scarpaci & J.J. Biles, eds. 2007. Globalization and Latin American Geography. Special issue: Journal of Latin American Geography 6, 2, 1-167. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS J.J. Biles et al. 2009. Globalization of food retailing in southeastern Mexico: Transformation of supply networks and consequences for small-scale agricultural producers, in N. Coe and N. Wrigley, eds., The Globalization of Retailing. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (in press), first published in the Journal of Latin American Geography 6, 2. J.J. Biles. 2006. Globalization of food retailing and the consequences of walmartization in Mexico, in S. Brunn, ed., Wal-Mart World: The World’s Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy. New York: Routledge (pp. 347-359). D.K. Munroe & J.J. Biles. 2005. Regional Science, in K. Kempf-Leonard, ed., The Encyclopedia of Social Measurement. San Diego: Academic Press (vol. 3, pp. 325-335). J.J. Biles & D. Cobos. 2004. Natural disasters and their impact in Latin America, in J. Stoltman et al., eds., International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation and Consequences. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (pp. 281-302). OTHER PUBLICATIONS (book reviews, editorials, reports, etc.) J.J. Biles et al. 2013. Análisis de Demanda y Oferta del Chile Habanero y Productos Derivados en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica. Report to the Council of Science, Innovation and Technology (CONCIYTEY) of the State of Yucatán (Mexico). J.J. Biles. 2010. Review of Geo-Mexico: The Geography and Dynamics of Modern Mexico, Journal of Latin American Geography 9, 2, 171-172. P. Marr, S. Drzyzga, G. Pomeroy and J.J. Biles. 2008. Economic and Transportation Impact of Warehousing on Rural Pennsylvania. Center for Rural Pennsylvania (available at: http://www.ruralpa.org/Warehousing_Report08.pdf). J.J. Biles. 2008. Wal-Mart and the “supermarket revolution” in Mexico. Geographische Rundschau-International Edition 4, 2, 44-49. J.J. Biles. 2008. Review of Regoverning Markets: A Place for Small-scale Producers in Modern Agrifood Chains?, Journal of Economic Geography 8, 1, 127-129. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 2007. OECD Territorial Reviews – Yucatán, Mexico. Paris: OECD. J.J. Biles. 2007. Review of Spaces of Sustainability, Growth and Change 38, 4, 727-730. J.J. Biles. 2007. El Estudio de la OCDE, Oportunidad para Yucatán, Editorial – La Revista Peninsular 18, 930. J.J. Biles. 2006. Review of Political Ecology in a Yucatec Maya Community, Journal of Latin American Geography 6, 2, 133-134. J.J. Biles et al. 1994. Hand in Hand: Skills Activities for Tutors and Students. Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education. J.J. Biles et al. 1993. A Guide for the Volunteer Tutor. Pennsylvania Department of Education, Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education.