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About Claudio Katz

Claudio Katz is an economist and researcher with Argentina’s National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), and professor at the University of Buenos Aires and a member of the Economists of the Left (EDI).
  • Neoliberalismo, Neodesenvolvimentismo, socialismo

    After Trump, what prospects for Biden in the Global imperial disorder?

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on February 1, 2021 (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  |

    The United States seeks to regain its sagging world dominance by capturing wealth, quelling rebellions, and deterring competitors. It supports this operation with gigantic military power and a burdensome arms economy.

  • Venezuela Defines the Future of the Region

    Venezuela defines the future of the region

    Originally published: Claudio Katz Blog - Translated on February 8, 2019 by Nicolas Allen (more by Claudio Katz Blog - Translated)

    The struggle for Venezuela will decide the destiny of Latin America, argues Claudio Katz. We must recognise global Right’s hypocrisy in its attempts to topple Maduro. But it doesn’t act alone: similar forces are alive inside a government that has failed to counteract economic collapse.

  • Latin America Faces the Global Crisis

    Claudio Katz

    It is true that banks are less leveraged, but the outflow of capital is intensifying.  Internationalized industry is hit by global overproduction, and lower prices of raw materials depress growth.  Moreover, attempts at stimulation collide with reduced resources from the central economies. Those who expect geopolitical benefits to follow from the crisis forget that the […]

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