Newsletter #2 Latin America from Above

CLACSO Working Group on Economic Elites, the State and Inequality
Latin America from Above Newsletter
Year 2 - Issue #2 Elites, taxes and wealth distribution in Latin America
July 2025

CONTENTS

Introduction

ARTICLES
1. Elites and wealth, inequality and taxes. Eight hypotheses
Jorge Atria

2. The currency controls, the dollar, and the old demands of the elites
Estanislao Malic
Inés Nercesian

ELITES IN THE CLOUD
BOOKS AND LITERATURE
3. Capitalist science fiction: How billionaires will save us from the end of the world, by Michel
Snows
4. The Political Economy of Elites in Latin America, by Jack Ickler and Rebeca Ramos Padrón
5. State and corporate power in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru: A comparative study, by John
Crabtree, Francisco Durand and Jonas Wolff
6. The Age of Discontent: Disruptive Leaders, Polarization, and Anti-Politics in Latin America
Gabriel Kessler and Gabriel Vommaro
7. 50 years of neoliberalism in Latin America, by Andréa de Sousa Gama and Maurílio Castro de
equipment
8. Knowledge and Power: Ideas, Experts, and Think Tanks, by Alejandra Salas
Porras Soulé

MISCELLANEOUS