PhD candidate in Political Economy, University of Sydney
David Avilés Espinoza is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is interested in the spatial political economy of uneven development in relation to peripheral capitalist social formations. His current PhD research is focused on the production of space and Nature in Chilean Patagonia through the analysis of commodity frontiers from a world-ecology perspective.
We live in a time of 'late capitalism'. But what does that mean? And what's so late about it?
Dec 08, 2022 10:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The term late capitalism seems to be everywhere as a trending meme often used as a kind of shorthand to illustrate the absurdities of certain free market economies. On Twitter, you will find the hashtags...
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