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Ein Vergleich der ökonomischen Daten vergangener Epochen deutet darauf hin, daß wir es mit einer neuen Dynamik des Weltmarktes zu tun haben. Die Schlußfolgerung der Globalisierungstheoretiker, daß nunmehr alles dem Weltmarkt unterliegt und sich einer politischen Einflußnahme entzieht, ist allerdings überzogen. (Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte / FUB)

Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- 1 Reorienting the tax debate: Political economy and tax regimes in Latin America -- PART I Taxation and the dominance of raw material export sectors -- 2 Natural resource wealth and fiscal institutions in Latin America since independence -- 3 Fiscal revenues from hydrocarbons and minerals in Latin America: Challenges in an era of unprecedented decarbonization and growing digitalization -- 4 The political economy of mobilizing tax resources in Bolivia -- 5 Tax culture: a conceptual proposal and empirical approach to the economic elite in Chile -- 6 Tax evasion and capital flight in resource-rich Latin America: What we can learn from Argentina -- PART II Taxation and allocational politics -- 7 The political economy of failed progressive fiscal reforms in Latin America -- 8 Redistributive threats, development models, and taxation in Latin America -- 9 A close relationship with the economic elite: the historical roots of the poor Mexican tax state -- 10 Business coordination and regressive taxation in Latin America -- 11 Ground rent, capital accumulation, and the limits of taxation in resource-rich countries: the case of Argentina (1993-2020) -- 12 Tax system and exchange rate in the appropriation of agrarian ground rent in Uruguay, 2000-2020 -- PART III New perspectives on political economy and tax regimes -- 13 Raw materials, tax reforms, and sustainable development: lessons from Latin America -- 14 Contours of rent-based societies: concluding remarks and new perspectives on political economy and taxation -- Index.

"Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxation have existed for a century and great wealth contrasts with abject poverty. The book analyzes the relation of natural resource wealth, allocational politics and the limited role of taxation for redistribution, and progressive resource mobilization. By drawing on the political economy of tax regimes, the book considers the specific conditions of taxation in Latin America, which apply to a large part of the Global South and more than 100 countries specializing in the extraction and export of raw materials. Scholars and advanced students of Political Economy, Political Science, Development Studies, and Fiscal Sociology will find several key issues in tax research from a novel angle. The book provides an analytical orientation that relates central questions of taxation to patterns of regional political economy, thereby opening up the debate with tax scholars from other world regions of the Global South"--

"Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxation have existed for a century and great wealth contrasts with abject poverty. The book analyzes the relation of natural resource wealth, allocational politics and the limited role of taxation for redistribution, and progressive resource mobilization. By drawing on the political economy of tax regimes, the book considers the specific conditions of taxation in Latin America, which apply to a large part of the Global South and more than 100 countries specializing in the extraction and export of raw materials. Scholars and advanced students of Political Economy, Political Science, Development Studies, and Fiscal Sociology will find several key issues in tax research from a novel angle. The book provides an analytical orientation that relates central questions of taxation to patterns of regional political economy, thereby opening up the debate with tax scholars from other world regions of the Global South"--

"The Puerto Rican debt crisis, the challenges of social, political, and economic transition in Cuba, and the populist politics of Duterte in the Philippines—these topics are typically seen as disparate experiences of social reality. Though these island territories were colonized by the same two colonial powers—by the Spanish Empire and, after 1898, by the United States—research in the fields of history and the social sciences rarely draws links between these three contexts.

Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines to examine the colonial legacies of the three island nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Instead of focusing on the legacies of US colonialism, the continuing legacies of Spanish colonialism are put center-stage. The analyses offered in the volume yield new and surprising insights into the study of colonial and postcolonial constellations that are of interest not only for experts, but also for readers interested in the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines during Spanish colonization and in the present. The empirical material profits from a rigorous and systematic analytical framework and is thus easily accessible for students, researchers, and the interested public alike."

Umweltpolitische Themen gewinnen an Bedeutung für die internationale Politik. In der Praxis erscheinen ökologische Bedenken gegenüber dem Wachstumsimperativ jedoch oft als Papiertiger. Dieses Buch diskutiert am Beispiel der Rohstoffpolitik die politischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Konsequenzen einer intensivierten Rohstoffausbeutung sowie die damit verbundenen sozialökologischen Konflikte. Außerdem werden Vorschläge für Alternativen zum dominanten Wachstumsmodell analysiert und Anregungen für eine Neujustierung des Entwicklungsbegriffs gegeben.