On the missing normative dimension of the pragmatics of money. A comment on "Inflation - Pragmatics of money and inflationary sensoria" by Federico Neiburg Bruno ThéretAI share most of the ideas Federico Neiburg presents in his paper. I also strongly appreciate the work of the researchers who...

Between 2020 and 2022, two major events shook society, the economy, and the daily lives of people across the world.1 The first of these events, the Covid-19 pandemic, set off a new cycle of inflation after several decades in which prices had been at a virtual standstill for most countries...

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research among upper-class parents affiliated with private schools in Brazil and Puerto Rico, I argue that upper-class parents viewed school choice not only in terms of aspirations for their children but as a reflection of therapeutic, personal growth projects...

Is there such a thing as humble skin color? In her study of perceptions of the African diaspora among elementary school students in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, doctoral student Marleys Meléndez Moré found that children who possessed a phenotype similar to that attributed to Africanness do...

The World Inequality Lab (WIL), Wealth and Inequality Research Focus, CALAS Laboratory of Knowledge, and World Elite Data Base Project.

In Latin America, most important local companies are part of business groups controlled by families. Data show that a significant part of the business elite is organized under rather concentrated equity structures, with a lower share of institutional financial investors than those in developed...

For many analysts, Latin America has long stood out as one of the most unequal regions in the world. However, according to Juan Gabriel Palma, in recent decades this characteristic is less a hangover from the past than the destiny to which many developed countries seem to be heading. In his...

The goal of this article is to explore and describe how social inequalities are replicated in the discourse of children who are cared for by child and adolescent domestic workers. The local context analyzed is the Mexican city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, where child and adolescent...

In a world that claims to value equality, inequality persists and in many ways is even growing, despite the ethical and pragmatic challenges it poses to social, political, and economic life dimensions. Yet, progressive movements, driven by ideals and interests, emphasize the importance of equity...

High inequality of wealth and income (or its concentration) is nowadays an international concern, although in many Latin American countries the only concern is to reduce poverty due to a vision associated with the trickle-down economy (Roberts 2022). From the neoliberal perspective and from that...