Mario Solis-garcia http://www.econ.umn.edu/~msolis/Web/Welcome.html   Macalester College Economics Department 1600 Grand Avenue Carnegie 310 Saint Paul, MN 55105 USA   msolis@umn.edu   http://www.econ.umn.edu/~msolis/           JEL Areas: E : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics O : Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth