Harry Churchill
@harryrob1996.bsky.social
Estudiante de propiedad y crédito en la historia de Chile @cornell
My article ‘The Sugar Industry, the State and Social Policy in Inter-war Jujuy, Argentina’, online since April, has been published with JLAS’s February issue. Available open access!
The Sugar Industry, the State and Social Policy in Inter-war Jujuy, Argentina | Journal of Latin American Studies | Cambridge Core
The Sugar Industry, the State and Social Policy in Inter-war Jujuy, Argentina - Volume 58 Issue 1-2
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Naivety or malfeasance with these guys? “In a market economy, worker compensation is largely determined by productivity. Because effort is rewarded, individuals come to exercise personal responsibility for, and agency over, their outcomes”. This graph from @brankomilan.bsky.social is always useful
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3w agoSocialists and Maga are both wrong about economic liberalism ft.trib.al/OWDpO2m
‘LDN and NY financial newspapers that attack any workers’ improvement at home are full of articles urging China to “decompress” wages and introduce more generous social transfers. Suddenly, The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal are brimming with concern about Chinese workers’ welfare’
Branko Milanovic@brankomilan.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy today's (somewhat incendiary) Substack: Don’t ask me about my profits, but let’s talk about your wages How Western capitalists use China-bashing to deflect attention from their soaring profits branko2f7.substack.com/p/dont-ask-m...
Despite excellent organization, beautiful stadiums, impeccable lawns, thousands of supporters, there was something ineffably wrong, even sick, in the last World Cup: so-called hydration stops that are really commercial breaks;
HAHR author Roy Hora explores the complex relationship between Argentina and Great Britain for the Asociación Argentina de Investigadores en Historia podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/5ikT...
Dos siglos de historia anglo-argentina: guerra, economía y deporte
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happy pub day to @erickabeckman.bsky.social !! Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism new from @versobooks.bsky.social ! www.versobooks.com/products/317...
Agrarian Questions
Between 1910 and 1970, Latin America experienced a rapid and radical transformation. Rural societies became urban, and peasants found themselves forced into precarious wage labor. The Latin American n...
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Petition to the University if Exeter ti not dismantle its humanities programs. The humanities help make thoughtful, active citizens, something all democracies need!
Katherine McDonald@katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 3mo agoColleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate this petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
I remember seeing someone write perceptively some time ago that the question of Germany’s autobahn speed limit is the political equivalent of gun ownership rights in the States
DER SPIEGEL@spiegel.de · 3mo agoPlötzlich wurde aus der 130 eine 100: Greenpeace-Aktivisten haben neue Schilder an Autobahnabschnitten angebracht – und Kritik an der Bundesregierung geübt.
Graph from Chapter 1 of "The Great Global Transformation" Within the United States, the growth rate for all parts of the population (but the very top) was higher in the period 1964-79 than in the period 1979-2019 (blue line above the red).
Translation of Adventure Capitalism (Paises Privados) out now with Editorial Prometeo. editorialprometeo.substack.com/p/paises-pri...
Países privados
Historias de fundadores, de fantasías libertarias y utopías capitalistas.
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Excellent piece on de-politicisation and the lingering effects of post-2008 austerity measures
Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy review of Anton Jager's Hyperpolitics appears in the next @lrb.co.uk and is online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Excited to see my first research article available open access on FirstView with the Journal of Latin American Studies! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Sugar Industry, the State and Social Policy in Inter-war Jujuy, Argentina | Journal of Latin American Studies | Cambridge Core
The Sugar Industry, the State and Social Policy in Inter-war Jujuy, Argentina
cambridge.org
Came across Louise Walker’s fascinating work on the Mexican middle classes post-‘68 while reading for exams. Delighted to see she has a new book about debtor-creditor conflict and economic transformation over the last two centuries. Excited to get into this. Review pending!
I sat down with @csschmitt.bsky.social on Tuesday to chat about her new book. Thanks for the fantastic discussion, Casey!
Histories from McGraw: A Cornell Podcast@mcgrawpodcast.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe Predatory Sea with Casey Schmitt open.spotify.com/episode/1umi...
With 11 other colleagues, we are launching a new online seminar series about Latin America in global history on Zoom. Here's the program for 2026. First meeting with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on Apr 10 at 4pm CET. All welcome. Link in program below, website to follow soon.
