
Nelo Magalhães holds a doctorate in mathematics (2015) and economics and history (2022). He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre de recherches historiques at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His research focuses on the materiality of capitalism, from a perspective that combines political economy, socio-ecological economics and environmental history. In particular, he has studied the metabolism of the French economy in the context of unequal ecological exchange (from 1830) and the theory of Regulation (from 1945). Based on an analysis of the most important material flows and stocks, he has recently published an environmental history of large transport infrastructures (2024).
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