Dr. Abelardo Mariña Flores is a Titular Professor in the Research Area of Society and Capitalist Accumulation of the Economics Department at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Azcapotzalco Campus, since 1985. He was Head of that Research Area during two periods in the 1990 and in the 2000, and Head of that Department during 2014-2018. Since 2019, he is Coordinator of Strategic Linkages of the Campus Azcapotzalco of UAM.

Mariña Flores holds Bachelor’s (Azcapotzalco Campus of UAM), Master´s and Doctor’s degrees (the last two from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in Economics. He has taught more than 170 courses in Marxist Political Economy, Labor Economics, International Economy, Capital Accumulation in Mexico, History of the Development of Capitalism in Latin America since 1985. He has been academic adviser of 41 undergraduate and graduate thesis.

He is founding member of several worldwide progressive academic associations and networks such as the Political Economy and Critical Thought Latin American Society (SEPLA) since 2005 and the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) since 2010.

His research has focused on Marxist Theories of Value, Labor exploitation, Accumulation, and Crises; World Market and Globalization; Capital Accumulation in Latin America and Mexico; Employment, productivity and wages. He has published 2 books, 48 chapters, and 28 articles; he has edited 11 books.