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Distinguished Professor. Recognition approved during the 320th Session of the Academic Council, held on March 9, 2010.

Dr. Edith Alicia Klimovsky Barón earned her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Buenos Aires in 1967, graduating with Honors. She received the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Economic Sciences from the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, in 1975, and the Doctorat d’État in Economic Sciences from the University of Paris Nanterre, France, in 1981. From October 1972 to December 1975, she held a French Government Scholarship to pursue her doctoral studies.

She served as a Distinguished Professor at UAM, held Level III membership in Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI), and was a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She also had the “Desirable Profile” distinction under the Program for the Professional Development of Professors (PROMEP). She received the UAM Social Sciences Division Teaching Award at the Azcapotzalco Campus in both 1994 and 1998.

She was invited as a visiting professor at the University of Paris Nanterre, France, in September–October 1988, February 1992, November 1995, and November 2003; at the University of Picardy Jules Verne, France, in March–April 1994; at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, in April 2005; and at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October 2012.

Under the framework of three-year international cooperation agreements from the French Ministry of National Education, Research, and Technology, she served as a visiting professor at the University of Paris Nanterre for four months each year during the academic years 1999–2001.

From January 2002 to November 2005, she was part of the PHARE research team in Paris, France, affiliated with the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). From November 2005 until her retirement, she worked as an associate researcher with EconomiX, a research team affiliated with the University of Paris Nanterre and the CNRS.

Her research focused on economic theory, with a primary specialization in price theory, income distribution, and multisectoral growth theory, particularly from a contemporary classical perspective. She made original contributions to the history of economic thought, including theories of rent and technical change, analytical treatments of labor, wages, and the technical and value composition of capital, as well as the relationship between the profit rate and surplus, and the scope of the labor theory of value. She collaborated with colleagues from the EconomiX research group to develop new linear disequilibrium reproduction models and to conduct dynamic analyses of those models. She also worked with them in monetary theory, with a particular emphasis on the economic reconstruction of classical value theory.

She authored 59 publications, including 26 international works (1 sole-authored book, five book chapters, and 20 peer-reviewed journal articles in various languages: Spanish, French, English, and Russian) and 33 publications in Mexico (2 sole-authored books, one edited volume, six book chapters, and 20 peer-reviewed journal articles).