Andrés Marroquín is a professor of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala. He earned a B.A. in economics at UFM, and a Ph.D. at George Mason University. His research has been on culture, entrepreneurship, and development in rural and semi-rural communities in Guatemala, Colombia, and Haiti, and he has studied institutions and economic performance in mineral-abundant societies like Botswana. His research has been published in Population and Development Review, Journal of Bioeconomics, Scientometrics, Econ Journal Watch, Journal of Economic Issues, and Research in Economic Anthropology, among others. He has been a visiting professor in Senegal, Mexico, China, and Haiti, among other countries. His email address is andresmg@ufm.edu.