Founded: September 2017
Location: Santiago de Chile
Country: Chile
Group email: opes@rethinkeconomics.org, opes.chile@gmail.com
Facebook: facebook.com/opeschile/
Twitter: twitter.com/opeschile/
Instagram: @opeschile
Website: opeschile.com/
About
El Observatorio de Políticas Económicas (OPES) es un centro de pensamiento que realiza investigación aplicada y difusión enfocada en la elaboración e implementación de políticas públicas, constituido por economistas jóvenes que cuentan con experiencia profesional en distintos sectores, abarcando universidades, instituciones públicas y organizaciones internacionales.
El OPES busca contribuir a superar el actual modelo económico extractivista, sexista, de extrema concentración de la riqueza y de despojo de derechos sociales; avanzando hacia un nuevo modelo de desarrollo basado en la equidad de género en términos sociales, cultural y económicos, en la protección de los derechos laborales y sociales, en la superación del patrón dependiente de los recursos naturales, en la instauración de un nuevo rol del Estado en la conducción de la economía y la discusión de formas de propiedad diversas, que superen el paradigma único de propiedad privada individual.
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OPES is a center of thought composed of graduates and students of economics that performs applied research and dissemination focused on the development and implementation of public policies.
Also, seeks to contribute to overcoming the current extractivist, sexist economic model of extreme concentration of wealth and dispossession of social rights; moving towards a new development model based on gender equity in social, cultural and economic terms, in the protection of labor and social rights, in overcoming the pattern dependent on natural resources, in the establishment of a new role for the State in the conduction of the economy and the discussion of diverse forms of property, which overcome the unique paradigm of individual private property.
In OPES we are planning an event about the thinking in Chilean economics structure, present the book that we are working and invite some relevant economist with a heterodox approach.
Notable achievements
- Producing work documents: We are working in develop apply research about gender, social policies and development economics.
- Diffusion about economic Knowledge: We are working in a book about the main characteristic that defines the Chilean economics. We seek to make people understand the economics problems in Chile.
- We are working in a collaborative work with “Bajando Economía” to develop a work area in re-thinks the mainstream in economics teaching.