Why did Brazil deindustrialize so much? (Bacha et al.)

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Why did Brazil deindustrialize so much? Testing the Dutch disease and premature deindustrialization hypotheses by Edmar L. Bacha, Victor S. Terziani, Claudio M. Considera, Eduardo A. Guimarães published by Revista Brasileira de Economia (2025). Between 1995 and 2022, Brazil’s…

Drivers of Digital Payment Adoption (Argente et al.)

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Drivers of Digital Payment Adoption: Lessons from Brazil, Costa Rica, and Mexico by David Argente, Paula Gonzalez Alvarez, Esteban Méndez, Diana Van Patten published by NBER (9/2025). Digital payment platforms can displace cash and extend financial services to underserved…

Monetary-Fiscal Interactions (Cochrane)

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Monetary-Fiscal Interactions by John H. Cochrane published by NBER (9/2025).       Inflation surged in 2021-2023 from a classic fiscal shock: money and debt that financed huge spending, without a plan for repayment. Neither money nor supply shocks offer a coherent…

Flexible work, rigid politics (Machado et al.)

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Flexible work, rigid politics: Platformization, aspirations, and the making of the authoritariat in the global south by Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Miguel Paolo Rivera,  Wagner Guilherme Alves da Silva, Rashmi Guha Ray, Marina Frid, and Jessica Matheus de Souza published by Dialogues on Digital Society (2025). This article examines…