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A left with audacity, decision, conviction, a program, and a clear strategy can confront the Right: an interview with Claudio Katz

Authors

Abstract

Claudio Katz is one of the most prominent economists of recent decades, with a long-standing commitment to critical reflection in both politics and academia, as well as active involvement in the defence of human rights. His publications have been translated into Portuguese, English, and Chinese. He currently participates in several working groups of CLACSO and has coordinated some of these groups. Among his most notable books are: Latin America at the Global Crossroads (2024); Dependency Theory: Fifty Years On (2019); Under the Empire of Capital (2011); The Dilemmas of the Left in Latin America (2008); and The Future of Socialism (2004). He received the Libertador Prize for Critical Thought in 2019, awarded by the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Network in Defence of Humanity, for his work Dependency Theory: Fifty Years On.

Author Biographies

Paula Vidal, Universidad de Chile

D PhD from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil; Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies at the Trandes-Freie Universität Berlin-Germany. Currently pursuing a PhD in History at the University of Chile. Associate Professor at the University of Chile, she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Faculty of Social Sciences, and is a member of the Chilean Workers' Association. From July 2023 to date she has been President of the National Association of Academics of the University of Chile.

 

Gonzalo Durán, Universidad de Chile

Economist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Master of Sciences in Labour Economics from the University of Turin (Italy), and Doktor der Philosophie from the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany, DAAD scholarship holder). His research interests are trade unionism, collective bargaining, wages, and inequality. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Chile.

 

Claudio Katz, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Claudio Katz is an Argentinean economist, activist, and human rights activist. He was born in 1954. He studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and received his PhD. He is one of the most prominent economists of recent decades, with a long career in critical reflection in politics and academia. His publications have been translated into Portuguese, English, and Chinese. He is currently involved in various CLACSO working groups and has coordinated some of them.