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From Chile to New York City: Systemic Corruption and Oligarchic Domination

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Camila Vergara is a critical legal theorist, historian, and journalist from Chile examining the relation between inequality, corruption, and domination, as well as how to institutionally empower common people to resist oppression from the powerful few. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge, conducting research on plebeian rights and the author of Systemic Corruption. Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (2020). In this essay, Vergara takes us back to her upbringing in Chile, during the Pinochet dictatorship, which she partially spend on her grandfather’s ranch, as the granddaughter of the patrón. Vergara unfolds how unequal power relations are reproduced through legal and regulatory structures, and how global inequality continues to be upheld by the oligarchization of power through systemic corruption, at both national and international levels.

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    See Thomas Piketty’s long-term study of inequality in Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). For taxation see pp. 498–508.

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    Kimberly A. Clausing, “Taxing Multinational Companies in the 21st Century” The Brookings Institution, January 28, 2020.

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    See Katharina Pistor, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019).

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    Camila Vergara

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  1. Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Christian Olaf Christiansen

  2. Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Mélanie Lindbjerg Machado-Guichon

  3. Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Sofía Mercader

  4. Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Oliver Bugge Hunt

  5. Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Priyanka Jha

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Vergara, C. (2023). From Chile to New York City: Systemic Corruption and Oligarchic Domination. In: Christiansen, C.O., Machado-Guichon, M.L., Mercader, S., Hunt, O.B., Jha, P. (eds) Talking About Global Inequality. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08042-5_17

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