Faculty & Staff
Nicolás Cachanosky, Ph.D.
Director
Business Administration Building 305
ncachanosky@utep.edu
Ph: (915) 747-8611
Dr. Cachanosky is Associate Professor of Economcis and Director of the Center for Free Enterprise at The University of Texas at El Paso Woody L. Hunt College of Business.
Dr. Cachanosky is also a Senior Fellow of the American Institute for Economic Research and a Fellow of the UCEMA Friedman-Hayek Center for the Study of a Free Society. He served as President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE, 2021-2022) and on the Board of Directors at the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS, 2018-2022). He earned a Licentiate in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, an M.A. in Economics and Political Sciences from the Escuela Superior de Economía y Administración de Empresas (ESEADE), and his Ph.D. in Economics from Suffolk University, Boston, MA.
Dr. Cachanosky is author of Reflexiones Sobre la Economía Argentina (Instituto Acton Argentina, 2017), Monetary Equilibrium and Nominal Income Targeting (Routledge, 2019), and co-author of Austrian Capital Theory: A Modern Survey of the Essentials (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Capital and Finance: Theory and History (Routledge, 2020), and Dolarización: Una Solución para la Argentina (Editorial Claridad, 2022).
Dr. Cachanosky’s research has been published in outlets such as Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, and Journal of the History of Economic Thought among other outlets.
Karla C. Hernandez
Masters Research Assistant
Business Administration Building 305
Karla C Hernandez is a Masters Research Assistant for the Center of Free Enterprise (C4FE) at the Woody L. Hunt College of Business. Karla is currently pursuing her Masters of Science in Economics degree at UTEP, and is the President of the Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society. She obtained her Bachelors of Arts in Economics with a minor in History in December 2022 from UTEP. Karla aspires to continue learning in the field of economics, and looks forward to contributing towards the mission of the Center to enhance economic literacy in both the UTEP community and the broader El Paso region.