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Neoliberalism is a political-economic philosophy that consists of two claims: one economic and the other political. The economic claim is: that free market laissez faire economies are the best way to organize economic activity as they generate efficient outcomes that maximize well-being. The political claim is: that free market economic arrangements promote individual liberty. This paper argues both claims are problematic. The evidence from the forty-year experiment that began in 1980 shows neo liberalism has undercut shared prosperity and unleashed illiberal forces that threaten liberty. The paper distinguishes between the first political turn which saw the establishment of neoliberal political hegemony, and the second one toward proto-fascism that we are now experiencing. The second turn is being driven by a collection of factors that have created a demand for proto-fascism and weakened the defenses against alt-right ideas. Those factors include socio-economic disembedding, institutional destruction and political disembedding, increased economic inequality that tilts political power, an alteration in attitudes to government and governance, transformation of economic identity, and a cultural transformation that celebrates sociopathic egotism. The Third Way's capture of center-left politics means liberal elites occupy the political place that should be held by true opponents of neoliberalism. Those liberal elites obstruct the politics needed to reverse the deep causes of the drift to proto-fascism. Ironically, that makes those elites a real danger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the income distribution in Mexico before and after taxes and transfers, with adjustment to national accounts, and compares it with the situation of other countries in the region and the OECD, to show how in Mexico, inequality is not remedied after taxes, but increased. Tax privileges, such as personal deductions or exemptions, are one of the causes of this inequality exacerbated by redistribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to show that global justice discourse, as it has been developed in a liberal frame, is unable to provide a satisfactory response to the global inequality problem. This thesis relies on the subjection of the tradition of political and economic liberalism to the socioeconomic capitalist frame, and on its optimism regarding law discourse, which, instead of strengthening, limits its possibilities to provide adequate structural responses. For this purpose, I have made a conceptual analysis of the contents of written documents; since my approach consists of a theoretical research, I have given priority to documental sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Greater San Miguel de Tucumán (GSMT) is an intermediate city in the province of Tucumán, which is fragmented, with informal settlements that are affected by exclusion, stigmatization and marginalization. This context deepens their conditions of vulnerability and prevents them from participating in the processes of production of the hegemonic discourses that circulate throughout them. Thus, this paper aims at analyzing the symbolic boundaries that constitute a key role to understand the modalities operating when setting and sustaining inequality conditions, paying as much attention as when analyzing material aspects. To this end, the Diagonal Norte neighborhood is taken as a case study, which is considered a slum located in the municipality of Yerba Buena, where private neighborhoods are mostly placed. On the one hand, the purpose is to systematize and analyze news publications where the neighborhood is mentioned and, on the other hand, to carry out interviews to neighbors. The data obtained allow us to point out different modalities in the construction of social representations about the neighborhood and the circulation of different discourses, according to the relationship they have with the logics of sustaining or transforming inequality conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the perception of the effects that the Covid-19 pandemic had on various dimensions of family quality of life in the city of Córdoba (Argentina): income, employment, food supply and domestic work, as well as the identification of individual characteristics associated with a greater vulnerability to developing negative effects in the mentioned dimensions. We used data from the Quality-of-Life Survey in Córdoba (ECVC), whose main objective was to diagnose the quality of life of Cordoba's population during 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is calculating the impact of taxes on inequality of lifetime income distribution in Argentina. Unlike other previous studies on the matter, which performed calculations on annual incidence or approximations on the measurement of lifetime income through current consumption expenditure, the approach to lifetime income measurement will be pursued through measuring income on the sources side. Compared to current income analysis, tax system turns out to be less regressive, given that the less progressivity of direct taxes which is more than compensated by the less regressivity of indirect taxes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to reflect on poverty and economic inclusion in a specific sector; the LGBTI+ community. The analysis is based on the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank’s LGBTI Inclusion Index. By means of a theoretical reflection, as well as a field study in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, the aim is to identify the impact that inclusion can have on the lack of opportunities and poverty of this group in productive age. As a conclusion it is confirmed that the lack of inclusion is a factor that can detonate poverty in a population of this group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper first analyzes the performance of Latin America during the long economic cycle that took place between 1998 and 2014, which combined the regional effects of the Asian crisis with a growth phase driven by a supercycle of commodity prices. However, the expansionary phase was followed by a five-year period of economic stagnation, during which previous achievements were weakened, even before the covid-19 crisis erupted, with its negative consequences. This confirms the persistence of the region's economic vulnerability to external shocks, as well as the difficulties in maintaining sustained growth rates associated with processes of structural change, which make it possible to reduce the gap in the development levels vis-à-vis the leading countries and face the challenges of environmental sustainability. It is also pointed out that, despite the important achievements in terms of social development during the recent growth cycle, the high structural inequalities that characterize the region were not broken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the role of social origin and contacts to access job opportunities for actors and actresses in Mexico City. Qualitative interviews with 21 theatre actors and actresses from 25 to 38 years old were conducted. The results show that contacts and actors and actresses' adscription with a renowned public figure is a strategy to get access to job opportunities and for the development of a professional career, though the interviewees highlighted that social origin and education are elements influencing on labour inequality in the cultural sector. The paper concludes that the implementation of public policy with an emphasis on equality is pivotal for the recognition of the right labours and decent work conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transdisciplinary dialogue between feminist theories and other approaches is fundamental. The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical reflection on the pertinence of incorporating the Feminist Standpoint Theory within the psychosocial perspective of Symbolic Interactionism developed from the Chicago School. We find this possibility at various convergence points between both stances: the opposition to positivism and scientificism; the interest in disarticulating essentialist conceptions; a situated, partial and processual vision of the construction of knowledge; the openness to implement various methods; and an investigative orientation based on intersubjectivity and experience. In this way, the possibilities of analysis and interpretation of one frame are neither accessory nor complementary to the other. Instead, we suggest thinking of a Feminist Symbolic Interactionism through the discussion of its epistemological, conceptual and methodological implications. What underlays in this theoretical positioning is an analytical and political enunciation platform that allows a critical psychosocial approach to inequality and other phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Macarena Suanes and Oriol Roca studied the main determinants of inequality and economic growth in Latin America between 1980 and 2009 and found that one of the main determinants was foreign direct investment. This paper extends that study to 2015 and shows that such investment is no longer significant. In contrast, increasing human capital significantly reduces inequality and improves economic growth. It is recommended, then, that economic policies are oriented towards raising educational attainment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]