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THAT'S NOT TRUE (ASÍ NO ES)
DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR ABOUT MERITOCRACY, THE MIDDLE CLASS, CLASSISM, WAGES, AND INCOMES.
By Viri Ríos & Raymundo Campos
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"Así No Es" utiliza datos, evidencia científica y periodismo de investigación para desmitificar ideas falsas sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e impuestos — verdades incómodas que por años han sido silenciadas para justificar la desigualdad y las más grandes injusticias de México.
IT'S NOT NORMAL (NO ES NORMAL)
THE RIGGED GAME THAT FUELS MEXICAN INEQUALITY
AND HOW TO CHANGE IT.
By Viri Ríos
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"No Es Normal" is a collection of 27 essays that meticulously demonstrate how the lack of economic competition, insufficient taxation of the wealthy, government's unresponsiveness to middle-class needs, and outdated labor laws have perpetuated income inequality in Mexico, benefiting the rich while causing the middle class to stagnate.
“This book challenges numerous deeply rooted beliefs within Mexican society. It employs clear and accessible language, supported by rigorous empirical evidence”
DR. GERARDO ESQUIVEL
Former Governor of Mexico's
Central Bank
“Few Mexican researchers have the intelligence, knowledge and social solidarity of Viri Ríos, this book is an example of it”
CARLOS URZUA
Mexico's secretary of finance
(2018-2019)
“Viridiana Ríos is a serious academic and analyst who knows Mexico well and whose book contributes invaluably to an informed debate on the country's main problems"
SANTIAGO LEVY
Vice President of the Inter-American
Development Bank
(2008 - 2018)
