1st Edition
Financialization of Nature in Latin America From Neo-Extractivism to Financial Alternatives
List of figures
About the editors
List of contributors
Introduction
Monika Meireles, Vania López, Elizabeth Concha, and Antonio Mendoza
PART I Expressions of the financialization of nature in Latin America: transnational mining companies and neoextractivism
1 Geopolitics of the financialization of nature and development in Latin America
Vania López and Ariadna Hernández
2 Latin American contours of financialized neo-extractivism: mining, water, and transnational corporations
Héctor López, Gabriela Rivera, and Monika Meireles
3 Mining in Latin America, instability, and financial dependence
Elizabeth Concha
4 Large mining companies in Latin America and extraheccionist dispossession
Elizabeth Concha
5 Financialization, mining, and Newmont in Mexico: fool’s gold?
Héctor López, Víctor Barragán, and Monika Meireles
PART II Alternative paths for financing the Latin American energy transition
6 Financing sustainable development in Mexico: theory, fiscal policy, and social finance
Monika Meireles, Antonio Mendoza, and Javier Hernández
7 Carbon markets: the path to energy transition and decarbonization?
Vania López, Luis Augusto Chávez, and Eduardo Vázquez Tovar
8 Energy rent and post-neoliberal forms of economic management and wealth administration
Antonio Mendoza
9 Putting care for life at the center: experiences in producing, appropriating, and distributing surplus in the field of economic diversity
Antonio Mendoza
Index
Biography
Monika Meireles is a full-time senior researcher at the Fiscal and Financial Economics Unit of the Institute for Economic Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Vania López is a full-time research professor in the Faculty of Economics, teaching in the Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Doctorate in Political Economy of Development, and Doctorate in Solidarity Economics programs at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
Elizabeth Concha is a professor in the Bachelor’s Degree Programs in Economics, Administration, and Mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus (UAM-I).
Antonio Mendoza is a full-time professor and researcher in the Department of Economics at UAM-I and a professor in the Faculty of Economics (UNAM), as well as a professor in the Graduate Program in Latin American Studies (UNAM) and Social Economics at UAM-I.
