Profit rate

Caligaris, G. (2019). Distintas tasas de ganancia y tipos de capitales en la crítica de la economía política. Un enfoque alternativo [Different profit rates and types of capital in the Critique of Political Economy. An alternative approach]. En O. Martínez (Ed.), Karl Marx desde América Latina. Dialéctica, política y teoría del valor (pp. 391-416). Lima, Perú: Ande / GISLAT.

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ABSTRACT La idea de que existe una tendencia a la formación de una tasa de ganancia uniforme para todas las ramas de la producción social está en la base de la explicación marxiana de los precios. Sin embargo, la realidad concreta de toda economía nacional evidencia que existen distintas tasas de ganancia que se mantienen … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (1995a). From Simple Commodities to Capital-Commodities: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production. Presented at 21st Annual Convention of the Eastern Economic Association, Mini-Conference of the International Working Group in Value Theory, New York City.

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ABSTRACT The social specificity of commodities, their value-form, has its simplest determination in that the abstract labour materialised in them is represented as their capacity to relate among themselves in exchange, thus socially relating their producers. This fetishist social relation necessarily develops into a material production that has the valorization of value as its immediate … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (1997). De la simple mercancía a la mercancía-capital: La transformación de los valores en precios de producción [From Simple Commodities to Capital-Commodities: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production]. Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT La especificidad social de las mercancías, su forma de valor, tiene como su determinación más simple el que el trabajo abstracto materializado en ellas es representado como la capacidad de éstas para relacionarse entre sí en el cambio, y con ello relacionar a sus productores. Esta relación social fetichizada se desarrolla necesariamente en una … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2016). The General Rate of Profit and Its Realisation in the Differentiation of Industrial Capitals. En G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 25–53). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT This chapter introduces Juan Iñigo Carrera’s take on the NIDL. In it, Iñigo Carrera proceeds from a particular point of departure, that is, from the global process of accumulation in its organic unity, and within which distinct national processes of accumulation emerge as specific concrete forms of that same global process. He argues that … Read more

Starosta, G. (2010c). The Outsourcing of Manufacturing and the Rise of Giant Global Contractors: A Marxian Approach to Some Recent Transformations of Global Value Chains. New Political Economy, 15(4), 543–563.

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ABSTRACT This article aims to show that the Marxian ‘law of value’ can provide solid foundations for the comprehension of the constitution and dynamics of Global Value Chains (GVC). It offers an explanation of the social processes of ‘value creation and capture’ within a chain based on the system-wide motion of global capital accumulation. A … Read more

Starosta, G. (2010a). Global commodity chains and the Marxian law of value. Antipode, 42(2), 433–465.

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ABSTRACT This paper develops a Marxian critique of the “global commodity chain” (GCC) paradigm. It is argued that this approach fails to provide an actual explanation of the phenomenon it sets about to investigate. Instead, it offers a typological description of the immediate manifestations of the determinations at stake. As a consequence, the GCC approach … Read more