International Sociology and International Sociology Reviews

‘Experiences of inflation and the extreme right’ is our Topic of the Month for October 2025. On this topic, enjoy Free Access this month to the article by Nicolas Welschinger (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) and Ariel Wilkis (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina) published in International Sociology, Moral superiority over the state: Young people’s experience of inflation and the rise of the libertarian right in Argentina. Read on to know more about the authors' trajectory and work.

Nicolás Welschinger

Ariel Wilkis

Nicolás Welschinger holds a BA in Sociology and a PhD in Social Sciences from the National University of La Plata (UNLP). He is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). He teaches Social Theory in the Department of Sociology and is the academic coordinator of the Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences at UNLP. Since 2019, he has served as the coordinator of the binational PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Social Studies of Europe and Latin America (University of Rostock/UNLP). His research focuses on youth experiences with politics, work, and education under platform capitalism. In recent years, since the outbreak of the pandemic, he has dedicated himself to investigating the emergence of youth adherents to far-right ideology.

Ariel Wilkis is an Argentine sociologist with a PhD in Sociology from EHESS (France) and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina). He is a specialist in the sociology of money and finance and has made significant contributions to the understanding of currency and indebtedness in the Argentine context. He is currently an independent researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), serves as Dean at the Interdisciplinary School of the National University of San Martín, and is the Director of the Franco-Argentine Center | National University of San Martín (CFA-UNSAM). He is a Full Professor at the Interdisciplinary School of the National University of San Martín and an Associate Professor in the Sociology Program at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, National University of the Littoral.

Among his most notable works are Las sospechas del dinero (Paidos, 2013), The Moral Power of Money (Stanford UP, 2017, translated into French by EHESS Editions in 2020 and awarded an honorable mention for the Zelizer Award by the ASA in 2018), Una historia de cómo nos endeudamos (Siglo XXI Editores, 2024) and El dólar. Historia de una moneda argentina (Siglo XXI, 2025). He has also edited El laberinto de las finanzas (Biblo, 2015), El poder de (e)valuar (Unsam Edita–Universidad del Rosario, 2016), Las estructuras elementales de la deuda (UNL Ediciones, 2020), and Dolarizaciones. Historias nacionales de una moneda global (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2024). His upcoming publications include How Debts Shape Democracy: The Argentinean Experience (The University of New Mexico Press, 2027) and The Sociology of Digital Money (Polity Press, 2027).