LASA ECONOMIA Y POLITICA

Join our section! @lasaeconpol seeks to attract members interested in any or all aspects related to theoretical and empirical debates around the role of states and markets in the development of Latin American and Caribbean nations. lasaweb.org/en/sections/ec…

Best Book Award Presented by the Economics and Politics section Winner Margarita Fajardo @mmfajardoh @SarahLawrence The World that Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era @Harvard_Press lasaweb.org/en/2023-sectio…

Best Article Award Presented by @lasaeconpol Honorable Mention Paul Alexander Haslam University of Ottawa "The micro-politics of corporate responsibility. How companies shape protest in communities affected by mining", World Development 139, 2021) lasaweb.org/en/2023-sectio…

Best Article Award Presented by @lasaeconpol Winner Luciana de Souza Leão University of Michigan @lulusouzaleao " Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico", American Journal of Sociology, volume 128, Number 1 lasaweb.org/en/2023-sectio…

.@lasaeconpol invites members to submit recent publications for the section’s Best Book Award. Send electronic copies of books by Feb. 10 to: Ivani Vassoler, ivani.vassoler@fredonia.edu & Joseph Marques, Chair: joseph.marques@webster.ch lasaweb.org/en/sections/ec…

.@lasaeconpol invites members to submit recent publications for the section’s Best Article Award. Send electronic copies of articles by Feb. 10 to: Ivani Vassoler, ivani.vassoler@fredonia.edu & Joseph Marques, Chair: joseph.marques@webster.ch lasaweb.org/en/sections/ec…

The Business Creation Process and Latin American Entrepreneurs Catalina Nicolás Martínez and Alicia Rubio Bañón @AliciaRB04 bit.ly/3CrJpP6

The Development of a Modern Cellulose Industry in South America Herbert S. Klein Francisco Vidal Luna bit.ly/3wcnOqg @lasaconosur @lasaeconpol

What Happened to the “New Middle Class”? The 2016 BORP (Brazil’s Once-Rising Poor) Survey bit.ly/3HdNO90 @itsben @DeMicheli_David Charles H. Klein Sean T. Mitchell bit.ly/39lHtMc 📸 Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peop…

Why Is the Accumulation of Knowledge So Hard? Exploring Econometric Research on the Determinants of Public Social Spending in Latin America bit.ly/3vcQ6k2 Svenja Flechtner @SvenjaFl Diego Sánchez-Ancochea 📷 Jorge Pousa

Tensions between the Middle Classes and the “New Middle Class” in Brazil: An Accidental Biographical Ethnography Tina Hilgers Anna Calderón and Max Honigmann bit.ly/39GI6jD

El framing de la economía en la prensa local de Argentina: Explicando el sesgo pro gobierno bit.ly/3QyrWta María @LauraTagina @fdelledonne Image Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diar…

Mañana Sábado 2pm PT (4pm en Perú) estoy en @LASACONGRESS junto al gran Eduardo Silva presentando nuevas investigaciones sobre las industrias extractivas en América Latina @CIPR_Tulane @PERULASA #LASA2022

The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America is out in paperback! Don't miss insights from @fmonaldi @mhallerberg @JuanBogliaccini @anulolbapnauj Bergman, Fairfield, Mahon, Ondetti, Scartascini, Schneider (with a 20% discount 🙂)

Left-wing governments are being elected across Latin America, but they face the threat of a rejuvenated and authoritarian right. @triofrancos @davidrkadler newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/03/… @LASACONGRESS @lasaeconpol

Congratulations to Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos whose book received an Honorable Mention for the Bryce Wood Book Award. Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador @DukePress lasaweb.org/en/lasa2022/br…

LARR articles about economy in Latin America bit.ly/3sF3yMD @lasaeconpol

El Salvador's president is taking a massive risk on Bitcoin npr.org/2022/03/03/108…

Congratulations to the winner of the 2022 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award Christy Thornton, Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (University of California Press, 2021) lasaweb.org/en/lasa2022/lu…

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