Lecturer in Latin American Studies, CLAS/POLIS, MPhil Director, CLAS, Director of Studies and Fellow in Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS), Fitzwilliam College

Pedro Mendes Loureiro is a University Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the Centre of Latin American Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies (CLAS/POLIS).

Primarily a political economist, at the heart of his work is a commitment to interdisciplinarity and pluralism, with interest ranging wide across the social sciences.

His research encompasses different aspects of the political economy of Latin America, focusing on inequality, structural change and development strategies. In particular, his recent work has assessed how the strategies of the ‘Pink Tide’ governments – the left-of-centre parties that were in power in Latin America roughly during the 2000s – were capable or not of upgrading the structures of their economies, reducing multidimensional inequality, and launching an inclusive, sustainable process of development.

He also works on inequality measurement, complexity economics, heterodox frameworks in economics (Marxist, post-Keynesian, Institutionalist, the Capabilities approach), class analysis, financialisation, state theory, Brazilian economic history, interdisciplinary and pluralist approaches, and mixed methods in the social sciences.