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Economies of scale in Peru’s water and sanitation sector
(Springer New York LLC, 2016-04)
This paper quantifies economies of scale in Peru’s water and sanitation (W&S) sector based on a five-year panel (2006–2010) that examines 39 water services providers. Our findings highlight the lack of economies of scale ...
Economy as a religious problem: A political approach
(University of Belgrado. Center for Study of Religion and Religious Tolerance, 2017-04)
This article tackles the problem of understanding money and economy with non-economic analytical categories. The first part is devoted to point out the differences between the exclusively economic approaches to money and ...
How do Migrant Workers Respond to Labour Abuses in “Local Sweatshops”?
(Wiley, 2016-06)
This article aims to provide empirical evidence on understanding how migrant workers’ responses to labour exploitation in low-wage economies are articulated. Inspired by the low levels of conflict among workers in small ...
Putting Culture in its Place? A Critical Engagement with Cultural Political Economy
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017-05)
Ngai-Ling Sum and Bob Jessop present Cultural Political Economy (CPE) as a project that seeks to deepen Critical Political Economy (C*PE) through an engagement with the cultural turn. This article critically assesses their ...
Forum response to “Building from heterogeneity: the decomposition and recomposition of the working class viewed from the ‘popular economy’ in Argentina”
(Springer, 2019-04-22)
The current proletarian landscape in Argentina cannot be understood without tracing a genealogy in which the emergence of the piquetero movement at the beginning of this century stands out as a crucial moment of ...
Regional Policy Frameworks of Social Solidarity Economy in South America
(United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2014-06)
This paper looks at how the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) discourse has been deployed at the regional level by UNASUR and MERCOSUR and the implications of these new policy frameworks for the advancement of SSE practices. ...
The social legitimacy of enterprises recuperated by their workers. An approach based on the notion of moral economy
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-10)
The recuperation of enterprises by their workers in Argentina has achieved ample social legitimacy despite its disruptive characteristics. What are the logics that sustain this legitimacy? Does this legitimacy extend to ...
Social and Solidarity Economy in South American regional governance
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017-12)
The article analyzes the scaling up of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) agenda in the regional integration processes of Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and MERCOSUR. We ask how the SSE is being used in ...
‘The Right to Live with Dignity’: Politicising Experiences of Precarity through ‘Popular Economy’ in Argentina
(Pergamon, 2017-09)
This article takes an ethnographic perspective to analyse the ways in which social movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina, politicise experiences of precarity through the creation of popular economy initiatives. I argue that ...
Capital Accumulation in the "Lucky Country": Australia from the "Sheep's Back" to the "Quarry Economy". Part I: the Colonial Period
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022-05)
Australia is unique as the only ex-colonial economy that has remained throughout its history at the top of high-income countries despite continuously specialising in the production of raw materials for world markets. ...