Wealth, Development, and Social Inequalities in Latin America

Transdisciplinary Insights
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-47356-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Coping with Crisis - Latin American Perspectives

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 economic, social, political, and cultural complexity of wealth. Questions examined include:

- What economic, institutional, and structural factors contribute to the excessive accumulation of wealth?

- What political dynamics promote the concentration of wealth and power?

- What type of social, political, and economic relations are generated in these contexts of extreme wealth concentration?

- What socio-cultural processes contribute to legitimizing and reproducing wealth?

- What are the local, regional, and national socio-ecological effects of these dynamics?

Wealth, Development and Social Inequalities in Latin America provides thought-provoking reading for students and researchers alike who wish to look beyond the Global North for answers on the importance of studying wealth.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burchardt, Hans-Jürgen

Lungo Rodríguez, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Wealth, inequalities, and sustainable development in Latin America Part 1: Economics of Wealth 1. Natural Resource Wealth, Its Problems, and What Can Be Done about them 2. Extractivism, Nature, and Wealth: Unequal Specialization and the Modernization of Elite Rule in Latin America 3. Agrarian Capitalism and Land Ownership: The Case of Uruguay 4. Tax systems and concentration of wealth: the problems of the Mexican tax system Part 2: Politics of Wealth 5. Wealth, Inequality, and Democracy in Latin America: A methodological approach 6. The Names of Power: How to Define Latin American Economic Elites? 7. The Wealth Defense Industry: An Exploration of the Role of Intermediaries in the Financial and Tax Fields in Economic Concentration 8. Elites and Development in Natural Resource-Exporting Countries – Experiences from Ecuador Part 3: Culture of Wealth 9. Privilege and Wealth in Latin America: Bridging Culture and Political Economy 10. Wealth Studies, Whiteness, and Family Dynasties in Latin America: Preliminary Reflections 11. "How does it feel to be a solution?" The Relationship between Wealth and Whiteness in Latin America 12. Object of attraction: The Wife, the Dowry, and the Distribution of Wealth in 19th Century Mexico

Über Autor(innen)

Hans-Jürgen Burchardt is Chair of the Department of International and Inter-Society Relations at the University of Kassel, Germany. He has many years of experience with joint projects and international cooperation. He was and is project leader of several university partnerships in Argentina, Chile, Cuba and Venezuela and has conducted various research projects in Latin America. As German director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), he is in charge of four Latin American regional centers at universities of excellence and is director of the Kassel Latin America Center CELA. For more than 15 years he has been researching questions of international environmental and raw materials policy, North-South relations, sustainability, and development theory with a focus on Latin America.

Irene Lungo Rodríguez is Scientific Coordinator of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) Laboratory Confronting Inequalities in Latin America: Perspectives on Wealth and Power. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universidad National de Mexico (UNAM) and is part of the National System of Researchers- SNI-CONACYT-Mexico.