In the shadow of the pandemic, the concentration of the wealth of large corporations, mainly financial, although those of the pharmaceutical industry, distribution of goods and services, entertainment, etc., has sharpened. But concentration advances in all spheres and at all levels, while the living conditions of the majority of the population on the planet stagnate or decline. The natural effects that have been violently expressed so far in 2021, both in areas of developed and undeveloped countries, or however they are classified, have highlighted not only the difficulties faced by the disadvantaged populations of the financialized economic model, but other more structural aspects of the model that has been imposed for fifty years, with the imposed and organized collapse of the Bretton Woods agreements, structural aspects such as the financial limits that governments are facing to make in the face of such catastrophes, which to some extent are part of another structural aspect that this devastating model has imposed: the systematic attack on the delicate environmental balance, and now, by taking the universe by storm, it threatens to contaminate even more.

It is in this horizon where the pieces of political, economic and financial interest move, be it in the field of money, productive-trade agreements, economic policies and the struggle around them, or the confrontation over the application of laws and regulations of governments that try to amend even a little the destructive path traveled. Although the initiation of the tax on digital giants is an advance, it is necessary to further deepen its control and surveillance, and above all, that governments assume part of these activities. It is with this perspective that in this installment www.olafinanciera.unam.mx makes available die discussion a series of collaborations by academics from various national and foreign universities that expose and unravel some of the critical issues in the field of financial economics from various perspectives and methodological orientations.

<< back