The plurality of the Bolivian economy is a subject of analysis and discussion with a long history in Bolivia due to the persistence and coexistence of economic units other than the capitalist enterprise and the public sector. The period of the government of President Evo Morales (2005 and 2019)...

We explore reasons underlying the economic prosperity of certain popular merchants in Bolivia. Even if economics often associates popular merchants with poor economic performance and low productivity, anthropological evidence shows the existence of large fortunes in the bolivian popular economy...