Alexandre Afonso’s Political Economy Newsletter
Alexandre AfonsoWelcome to Alexandre Afonso's Political Economy Newsletter. Here I try to write about the politics of the economy and the economic drivers of politics.
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High Skills Don’t Shield Immigrants From Racial Bias
Last year, the Trump administration initiated “Mission South Africa”, a refugee resettlement program tailored specifically for white South Africans. In fact, South Africans now account for nearly all refugee admissions in the US in 2026. Th...
Who Voted for Bolsonaro junior?
I happen to speak Portuguese and have been following the Brazilian presidential campaign on and off. Brazilian politics is not easy to make sense of as an outsider, and I don’t pretend to be a specialist. It seems fairly chaotic. A few mont...
Immigrants: The Silent (Almost) Majority in Dutch Academia
Evolution of Dutch and Foreign Personnel in Dutch Universities, 2003-2025 (full-time equivalents)
Complaining about the demise of Dutch as a working language, and the rise of English in many areas of social life, has become a recurring fea...
The Height of Income and Class
Variations in human stature (1887), Popular Science Monthly Volume 31
Economic historians have long used height as a proxy for living conditions and material well-being in periods when direct measures are otherwise unavailable — drawing on...
Fifty Shades of Welfare Chauvinism
When Geert Wilders tweeted in 2020 that COVID patients of non-Western backgrounds were occupying Dutch ICU beds at the expense of native patients, he was tapping into a deep well of public sentiment. Across Europe, who deserves access to we...
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