Pedro Rubin is a masters student in the graduate program of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGE-IR-UFRJ).

April 11, 2024

Analysis

The Electric Vehicle Developmental State

BYD exemplifies transformations in Chinese industrial policy

The rise of the Chinese EV industry has been enabled not only by generous government subsidies but also by profound changes in strategy and organization, and in particular by a distinctive revival of vertical integration—at both individual firm and national…

April 3, 2024

Analysis

The Debt Poor

Financialization, debt and the underestimation of poverty in Brazil

The 2008 financial crisis was an unprecedented demonstration of financialization in capitalism today. In the US, the collapse of real estate values revealed how formal credit channels—imagined as mechanisms of wealth creation—had brought unsustainable levels of household indebtedness down into…