The Current Crisis in Cuba: A historical and conjunctural perspective.

Sinan Koont is Associate Professor of Economics (emeritus) at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His visits to Cuba began in 1993 with a 3 month long sabbatical stay at the University of Havana in the middle of the Special Period in Cuba that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since then he has  visited the island many times (three times with students) and published numerous articles (mostly on Urban Agriculture in Cuba) and a book titled Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba (University Press of Florida , 2011)