In this book, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt and Irene Lungo-Rodríguez lead a transdisciplinary team of experts to advance our understanding of wealth in Latin America. Combining conceptual discussions with empirical research, they analyze characteristics of wealth, and the implications for inequality. Three thematic sections provide a unique overarching structure to understand the …
Edited By Philip Fehling, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt May 12, 2023 Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxation have existed for a century and great wealth contrasts with abject poverty. The book analyzes the relation of natural resource …
Edited By Hannes Warnecke-Berger, Jan Ickler July 21, 2023 For many countries, primarily in the Global South, extractivism – the exploiting and exporting of natural resources – is big business. For those exporting countries, natural resource rents create hope and promise for development which can be a seductive force. This …
Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines to examine the colonial legacies of the three island nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Instead of …
This volume examines the social, political, economic and cultural legacies of the last three colonies of the Spanish Empire: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The three former colonies offer an ideal setting for applying a comparative framework of analysis, in that they coincide in that their long-term colonial experiences …
Climate change, species extinction, massive exploitation of resources, environmental pollution, the consumption of non-renewable but vital elements – all these are symptoms of a planetary crisis that is currently threatening the very existence of ecosystems – and thus also of human beings. Despite its global dimensions, this crisis has very …
In the wake of high world market prices, many commodity states experienced an economic boom at the beginning of the 21st century. In this context, Latin America attracted a great deal of international attention with its development model of neo-extactivism. It succeeded in combining (relative) economic prosperity with considerable social …
The Cuban labor market has been undergoing far-reaching structural change for several years, which is of central importance for the future development of the island. Despite the high relevance of the changes in labor policy, there have been hardly any social science analyses to date that reflect these recent dynamics …
Here, you will find an overview over all our articles and chapters in edited volumes published in 2021-2022. Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt Burchardt, H.-J. (2022): Der Krieg und unser Unwillen zu lernen. In Makroskop – Magazin für Wirtschaftspolitik, 24.05.2022 Burchardt, H.-J. & Leinius, J. (2022): Of Archipelagic Connections and Postcolonial …
This book combines Hartmut Elsenhans’ ideas on the laws of motion of capitalism and his approach to world system analysis and rent theory, his thoughts on development theory and finally, international relations and the past, present, and future dynamics of the international system. Hartmut Elsenhans shows that capitalist growth depends …