The paper reviews the academic debate around the dominant sectors in Ecuador during the post-neoliberal cycle (2007-2017). The aim of this article is to trace the theoretical approaches and findings proposed by the scientific work in social sciences on the economic elites in the Andean country during the governments led by Rafael Correa. During thi...
Prominent among the analysis of the transformation of the temporal structures of modernity is the idea of acceleration, Hartmut Rosa’s work being the main reference for it since it outlines a systematic theory connecting acceleration with explanatory variables forming a sociologically discernible trend. The purpose of this article is to deepen this...
This essay investigates and ultimately rejects the claim that the United States’ comparatively heavily reliance on markets over government to provide the resources that families need is a natural outgrowth of the country’s longstanding veneration of capitalism. In tracing the nation’s economic ideology over time, it demonstrates that, at least unti...
This paper analyzes how the shift from structuralism to neo-structuralism is characterized by a displacement of the role played by the relations of power in several analytical dimensions, namely: the historical formation of peripheral productive structures, the conflictual relations, the surplus, the role of industrialization as a development strat...
Published in American journal of epidemiology
Epidemiology of the US coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak focuses on individuals' biology and behaviors, despite centrality of occupational environments in the viral spread. This demonstrates collusion between epidemiology and racial capitalism because it obscures structural influences, absolving industries of responsibility for worker sa...
The negative impact of human activity has been known throughout history. The epic tale of Gilgamesh, Koranic and biblical texts all make clear the potential that humans have to destroy the world in which they live. Climate breakdown, biodiversity collapse and zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19 have also been predicted well in advance. The “wicked p...
Regulatory capitalism depends heavily on science, but science faces epi-stemic critiques and crises of research integrity. These critiques and crises are outlined and then located within capitalism's general tragedy of commodification. Drawing on Marx's insights into the relationship between science, commodity production, and the machine age, the g...
Published in Journal of International Business Policy
Are crises an opportunity to push for fundamental changes? Can the COVID-19 crisis help to promote an ideological shift towards a different type of capitalism? By conducting a quantitative content analysis of the international press on the COVID-19 bailout conditionality debate, this article documents the existence of three dominant narratives: the...
Delo se ukvarja z odnosom in povezanostjo med depresijo in neoliberalnim kapitalizmom. Na začetku je na kratko opisana zgodovina neoliberalizma, kako je prišel v realno politiko in katere so njegove značilne politike v prid svobodnemu trgu, ki povzročajo večanje družbenih neenakosti. V drugem poglavju je najprej prikazana korelacija med epidemijo d...
