Edgar Mason

Edgar Federico Mason Villalobos (1953 – 28 November 1996) was a Mexican columnist, economist, and journalist. Biography Born in 1953, Mason studied the career of Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico School of Economics. Obtained his title in 1983. In addition to performing his occupation and being a professor of Economics at the Panamerican University, the Intercontinental University, and the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), he dedicated himself to economic and political analyses, and journalism. He was a columnist in the Mexican newspapers El Financiero, Novedades de México, El Norte, and El Informador, as well as in La Nación, i.e. the monthly official magazine of the National Action Party (PAN); the Mexican weekly magazine Impacto, and the U.S. magazines Background and Weekly Review. Published books He was the author of more than fifteen books, including: Luz y sombra del Tratado de Libre Comercio, México y sus mexicanos: Una explicación sobre la idiosincrasia mexicana, La otra crisis que viene, México: crisis y supercrisis. (Light and shadow of the Free Trade Agreement, Mexico and its Mexicans: an explanation about Mexican idiosyncrasy, The other crisis that is coming, Mexico: crisis and supercrisis.) Award "Negobank" Economics Award, in 1976.