Fernando Rugitsky is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of England Bristol (UK) and was previously at the Department of Economics of the University of São Paulo (Brazil), between 2015 and 2021. In 2020, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research (US). His work has been published in journals like the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Review of Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, New Left Review (Sidecar) and Jacobin.