Department of Economics

Dr Tobias Franz

BA (Münster), MSc (Glasgow), PhD (London)

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Overview

Department of Economics

Lecturer in Economics

Name:: Dr Tobias Franz
Email address:: tf2@soas.ac.uk
Telephone:: +44(0) 207 898 4312
Address:: SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:: 283
Academic Support Hours:: Tuesdays 11:00am-1:00pm

Biography

Dr. Tobias Franz is a Lecturer in Economics at SOAS, University of London and the Programme convenor for the MSc Political Economy of Development. Following his PhD at SOAS, University of London on the political economy of institutional change, elite politics and local productivity changes in urban Colombia, Tobias Franz worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. His main interests are the analysis of power balances affecting local, national and regional productivity patterns in Colombia. He has a detailed theoretical expertise in the fields of institutional economics and economic geography.

Teaching

Programmes Convened

Modules Taught

Research

Political economy, institutional economics, elite politics, economic geography, industrial policy and the role of the state in development. Latin American economic development. Particular interests in the economic development of Colombia. Also interested in developmentalist and post-developmental debates originating from the Global South.

Expertise

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TV
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Press
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Short Term Consultancy

Regional Expertise

Global
Latin America

Country Expertise

Brazil
Colombia
Germany
Venezuela
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Languages

English
German
Spanish

Publications

Articles

Franz, Tobias (2020) 'Spatial fixes and switching crises in the times of COVID-19: implications for commodity-producing economies in Latin America'. Canadian Journal of Development Studies. [Forthcoming]

Franz, Tobias (2019) 'Why ‘Good Governance’ Fails: Lessons from Regional Economic Development in Colombia'. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, (43) 4, pp 776-785.

Franz, Tobias (2018) 'Power balances, transnational elites, and local economic governance: The political economy of development in Medellín'. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, (33) 1, pp 85-109.

Franz, Tobias (2017) 'Urban Governance and Economic Development in Medellín'. Latin American Perspectives, (44) 2, pp 52-70.

Franz, Tobias (2016) 'Plan Colombia: illegal drugs, economic development and counterinsurgency - a political economy analysis of Colombia's failed war'. Development Policy Review, (34) 4, pp 563-591.

Book Chapters

Montero, Sergio and Franz, Tobias and Choles, Miller (2020) 'Repensando la Gobernanza y el Desarrollo Económico Local desde Colombia: Informalidad, Élites y Diversidad.'. In: Montero, Sergio, (ed.), Repensando el Desarrollo Económico Local desde Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes. [Forthcoming]

Franz, Tobias (2017) 'Urban Governance and Economic Development in Medellín: An “Urban Miracle”?'. In: Angotti, Tom, (ed.), Urban Latin America: Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms. Lanham, Maryland, United States: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp 129-145.