Fernando Rugitsky, born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London. He has held positions at the University of São Paulo (2015–2021) and the University of the West of England (2021–2025) and obtained his PhD at The New School for Social Research.

Meridional

December 20, 2025

Analysis

Meridional

A new monthly newsletter on Latin America’s political economy

A new monthly newsletter on Latin America’s political economy. In 2020, the late Bruno Latour remarked that “Brazil is today what Spain was in 1936, during the civil war: it is where everything that will be important in the next…

February 21, 2025

Analysis

Controlling Capital

Inflation targeting and external vulnerabilities in the Brazilian economy

Central banks are back in the spotlight. After more than three decades of low inflation in rich countries, the rise in prices observed between 2021 and 2023 forced academic discussions into the public sphere. Such debates are not restricted to…

August 21, 2024

Analysis

The World’s Stockyard

Agribusiness and the green transition in Brazil

In the age of climate emergency, the developmental drawbacks of being a primary goods exporter may intensify. Besides barriers to climbing the value chain on the world market, the economic cost of becoming the world’s stockyard is compounded by its…