College of Arts and Sciences

Education:

• PhD, Economics, New School for Social Research, New York, 2002
• MPH, Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1992
• MBBCh, Medicine & Surgery, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1981

Curriculum Vitae:

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Research Interests:

• political economy
• mortality
• social development
• business cycles
• Chernobyl
• climate change
• world economy

Bio:

José Tapia has been a professor at the department of politics since 2014. Before moving to Philadelphia to work at Drexel, he was a professor and researcher for eleven years at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He worked in Spain as a primary care doctor, and in the publishing industry.

In 1989 he moved to the US to work for WHO. His early research focused on the effects of economic changes on mortality. More recently his interests have moved toward environmental issues, and the world economy. He teaches courses on international political economy, political economy of climate change, social development, and political parties.

He is passionate about chess, movies (for instance by Kurosawa, Truffaut, Almodóvar, or Kubrick), music (for example by Bach, Mahler, Joan Baez, The Beatles, or Atahualpa Yupanqui), and literature (by Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Lu Xun, George Orwell, Roberto Bolaño, Primo Levi, Ondra Lysohorsky, and many others). He will retire soon.

Selected Publications:

• Tapia JA (2023). Six Crises of the World Economy: Globalization and Economic Turbulence since the 1960s to the COVID-19 Pandemic (New York, Palgrave-Macmillan).
• Tapia JA (2022).Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the USSR (Boston/Berlin, De Gruyter).
• Tapia JA, Spash CL (2019). Policies to reduce CO2 emissions: Fallacies and evidence from the United States and California. Environmental Science & Policy 94:262-266.
• Wang Q & Tapia JA (2019). Economic growth and mental health in 21st century China. Social Science & Medicine 220:387-395.
• Tapia JA (2018). Inexorable march toward utter climate disaster? CNS — Capitalism Nature Socialism 29(4):21-30.
• Tapia JA et al. (2018). Cardiovascular risk factors, depression, and alcohol consumption during joblessness and during recessions in CARDIA young adults. American Journal of Epidemiology 187(11):2339-2345.
• Tapia JA (2017). Macroeconomic effects on mortality: Issues, controversies, and directions for research. In Scott RA & Buchmann M, eds. Emerging Trends in the Social & Behavioral Sciences. New York, Wiley, 1-16.
• Tapia JA, Ionides EL (2017). Population health and the economy: Mortality and the Great Recession in Europe. Health Economics 26:e219–35.
• Regidor E, Vallejo F, Tapia JA, et al. (2016). Faster mortality decline in low socioeconomic groups during the economic crisis in Spain: a cohort study of 36 million people. Lancet 388: 2642–52.
• Tapia JA, Rodriguez JA (2015). Health, economic crisis, and austerity: A comparison of Greece, Finland and Iceland. Health Policy 119(7):941-953.
• Tapia JA. (2015). Money and Say’s law: On the macroeconomic models of Kalecki, Keen, and Marx. Real-World Economics Review 70:110-120.