School of Economics, UNAM School of Economics, UNAM The School of Economics is the dependence of the National Autonomous University of Mexico responsible for conducting research and teaching in economics. Has its direct predecessor in the so-called National School of Economics. The National School of Economics was founded on February 10, 1929, when an economics section was established in the old National School of jurisprudence of the not yet Autonomous National University of Mexico. Since its beginning and up to 1934 it operated from the National School of Jurisprudence building. In 1935, when it became the National School of Economics moved to the annex
School of Sciences, UNAM four other buildings lodging the Faculty's respective departments and their faculty. The newer part of the complex consists of two buildings, one called "Amoxcalli", which holds the Faculty's library and the Computing Center. The newest one is called "Tlahuizcalpan" which hosts various labs and research premises, as well as classrooms. In recent years, an interdisciplinary extension of the Faculty was inaugurated in the port of Sisal, Yucatán, devoted to the research of coastal ecosystems and their species. The National Herbarium of Mexico at UNAM in Mexico City houses the largest collection of plant specimens in all of Latin America and