Jonathan Báez

And after a long journey is here "TRUSTS: Searching for the Hidden Treasure in Ecuador" in The Political Economy of Elites in LA, edited by Jan and Rebeca dla @uni_kassel and published in @routledgebooks It shows 84 companies in tax havens hidden in 1/3

Informe a la Nación, los datos que no estarán este #24DeMayo por parte del presidente Noboa

Shame on @nytimes for using the term “Dirty War” to describe the forced disappearances, torture, arbitrary detention, and extrajudicial killings of the Argentinian dictatorship. It was a genocide /1 nytimes.com/2026/05/18/wor…

En 1996, les 500 plus grandes fortunes de notre pays détenaient 6% du PIB. Aujourd'hui, elles accaparent 42% du PIB. Il y a un pillage de notre pays par les milliardaires, aggravé par le Président des riches. Au pouvoir, nous inverserons cette tendance.

algunas cifras que probablemente no estarán en la rendición de: los bancos privados grandes tienen ingresos cada vez más altos (incluso más que con Lasso), mientras los ingresos familiares se estancan (bajo la premisa poco creíble de que las familias ganan 1,6 veces un sbu

New on inequalitylab.world: Taxing Wealth & Enrichment: Lessons from 1945 French National Solidarity Levy, by P Brassac Bottom line: French 1945 ISN was less ambitious than German 1952 Lastenausgleich, but confirms that capital levies can play a major role to face new challenges prod.wid.world/www-site/uploa…

True. 2 × $0 still = $0.

Une mobilisation exceptionnelle est en cours en Bolivie ! De tout le pays, les Boliviens ont marché dans d'immenses cortèges en direction de la capitale : mineurs, indigènes, ouvriers, paysans, unis pour leur dignité. Un objectif : chasser le président d'extrême droite Rodrigo Paz. La situation est gravissime. Le pouvoir fait tirer sur les manifestants à balles réelles. Les syndicalistes et manifestants sont massivement arrêtés. Les États-Unis sont à la manœuvre. La Bolivie possède les plus grandes réserves de lithium de toute la planète. Le président Paz les a déjà mises à disposition des multinationales de l'empire. Les États-Unis doivent cesser leurs ingérences en Amérique Latine. Les ressources naturelles boliviennes appartiennent au peuple bolivien. Vive la liberté des peuples.

Tomorrow, join us for the launch of Jeffrey Winters’ latest book, "The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies", exploring how extreme wealth and power shape modern democratic systems. A timely discussion on inequality, oligarchy, and the paradoxes at the heart of democracy. Opening remarks by Elisa Van Waeyenberge, followed by a discussion with @nomhossain. 📅 19 May 2026 | 🕛 12:00 📍 KLT, @SOAS Book sale and signing to follow. Register here➡️: shorturl.at/zccV3 @PenguinUKBooks

Assinei hoje uma medida provisória para conter a alta do preço da gasolina, que vem sendo pressionado por uma guerra que não é nossa. Desde o início do conflito, estamos agindo para proteger os brasileiros dos impactos da alta internacional dos combustíveis. Já adotamos medidas para reduzir os efeitos no diesel e no gás de cozinha. Graças a esse trabalho, o Brasil segue entre os países menos afetados pelo conflito no Oriente Médio. Não vamos permitir que a nossa população pague a conta dessa guerra. 📸 Breno Araújo

The 56,000 wealthiest adults on the planet hold 3x as much wealth as the poorest ½ of humanity combined – but two policy levers could redress the balance. Ricardo Gómez-Carrera explores #LSEInequalitiesBlog @WIL_inequality buff.ly/hT0Avna

En tertulia con camaradas decían que este feriado era para desincentivar marchas y apagones. Este posteo se está haciendo a través de powerbank porque se fue la luz nuevamente. Espero que la próxima predicción de sea que estos personajes no volverán a estar en el poder político

Analizamos la Quinta Revisión del Staff Report del FMI sobre el Ecuador: Gobierno Central gastó 802MM más de lo planificado en un trimestre. Ante esto, se profundiza la consolidación fiscal. Detalles aquí 👇 finanzasyclima.org/2026/04/27/ecu…

Sadece kendi dergilerine atıf yaparak en çok atıf alan dergi yaptıkları dergilerde yayın yapmayanları işe almayarak heterodoksları üniversitelerden tasfiye ettiler.

Interesting: Rethinking taxes as the gift: Maussian interventions and radical fiscal imaginaries: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

🌱 Our new issue has blossomed, showcasing brand new inspiring evidence on education as one of the most powerful forces shaping inequality and life chances in contemporary societies! Read it at: academic.oup.com/esr/issue with many articles #OpenAccess!

ENTREVISTA Ha-Joon Chang: “No hay ningún país que haya tenido éxito con este tipo de políticas liberales del señor Milei” Por Alejandro Rebossio @ale_rebossio eldiarioar.com/economia/joon-…

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

1. Los financieros quieren austeridad: inflación/deficit = tasas de interés altas y precios de bonos gubernamentales en baja, rendimientos para tenedores de bonos en baja. Como dijo un bond trader: para los BlackRocks del mundo, crecimento bajo= rendimientos altos

Wolfgang Streeck dijo uno vez que los bancos centrales son la vanguardia del capital financiero dentro del estado, pero no predijo los aplausos tan fuerte en la lucha de clase.