Global unity

Iñigo, L. (2021). Las transformaciones de la escolaridad como formas concretas del movimiento de la materialidad de la producción de la vida social. Automatización de los procesos de trabajo y generalización de la lectura [The transformation of schooling as concrete form of the movement of the materiality of social life production]. Educación, Lenguaje y Sociedad, 18(18), 1-31.

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ABSTRACT: The article puts forward a set of arguments as grounds to approach two global tendencies that have been described by the ‘world society’ theory: the expansion of secondary education starting the second half of the 20th century, and the standardization of its curriculum with a preeminence of reading comprehension and, more generally, the ability … Read more

Hirsch, M. (2020) Determinación y tendencia del valor de la fuerza de trabajo en la crítica de la economía política. Red Sociales [The determination and trend of labour power in the critique of political economy]. Revista del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, 07 (06), 32-49.

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ABSTRACT This article critically examines Marxist discussions on how the value of labor power and its trend are determined. Unlike the most resonant approaches, which explain this determination by class struggle, it is argued that value of labor power is given by the corresponding value of the commodities that each worker needs to consume so … Read more

Pérez Trento, N., & Starosta, G. (2020). En torno al rol de la Argentina en la Nueva División Internacional del Trabajo. [On the role of Argentina in the New International Division of Labour]. Voces del Fénix, 80, 48–55.

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ABSTRACT With the consolidation of the capitalist mode of production, the process of social reproduction takes on a global character. Still, differences among the roles played by diverse countries are apparent. In this work, the authors offer a perspective on the role that Argentina plays in the process of global production, focusing especially on the … Read more

Levín, S. (2024). Crisis económica. ¿Es solo el COVID 19? ¿Es la guerra? Ciclos de Kondratiev. Apeirón, 20, 165-190.

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ABSTRACT This paper starts by asking the question: is the magnitude of the current economic crisis due to COVID-19 and later by the war alone, or did the pandemic compound an underlying crisis? We use Kontratieff cycles (K-cycles) to study quarantine-related economic losses in context. Capital accumulation is global in its essence, but takes the … Read more

Pérez Trento, N., & Starosta, G. (2020). En torno al rol de la Argentina en la nueva división internacional del trabajo [On Argentina´s role in the New International Division on Labour]. Voces del Fénix, 80, 48–55.

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KEYWORDS: capital accumulation; new international division of labour; global unity of accumulation; Argentina. DOWNLOAD PDF

Pérez Trento, N. (2020). En torno a las potencialidades y límites del enfoque (neo)extractivista respecto de la dinámica reciente de la acumulación de capital en la Argentina (1990-2016) [On the potentialities and limits of the (neo-)extractivist approach regarding the recent dynamics of capital accumulation in Argentina (1990-2016)]. Izquierdas, 49, 3974–3998.

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ABSTRACT In the context of the recurrent political oscillations that took place in the last decades in Latin America, a new approach strengthened among social sciences, which suggests the existence of an economic continuity: the intensification of the production of raw materials for the world market. This approach, which led to the characterization of these … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2019b). Desarrollo económico y acción política revolucionaria. Una evaluación crítica del debate marxista sobre el ‘derrumbe’ del capitalismo [Economic development and revolutionary political action. A critical review of the marxist debate on the ‘collapse’ of capitalism]. In R. Escorcia Romo & G. Caligaris (Eds.), Sujeto capital—Sujeto revolucionario. Análisis crítico del sistema capitalista y sus contradicciones (pp. 181–210). Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / ITACA.

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Iñigo Carrera, J. (2019). Criterios de coherencia del método de medición de la capacidad relativa de las monedas nacionales para representar valor y consecuencias prácticas de desconocerlos. [Consistency criteria for the method of measuring the relative capacity of national currencies to represent value and the practical consequences of ignoring them.] Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT The paper presents the criteria for the consistency of the method of measuring the relative capacity of national currencies to represent value. It critiques the neoclassical conception prevailing in the specialized literature. KEYWORDS: Exchange rate; Overvaluation; Undervaluation; Value DOWNLOAD PDF (IN SPANISH)

Fitzsimons, A. y Starosta, G. (2019) ¿Una mercancía “como cualquier otra”? Reexaminando la determinación del valor de la fuerza de trabajo [A commodity “like all other commodities”? Re-examining the determination of the value of labour power]. Economia e Sociedade 28 (3), p. 665-687.

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ABSTRACT This article addresses the process of production of labour power with a view to re-examining Marx’s stance on the determination of the value of this ‘peculiar commodity’. In order to do so, the article critically reviews the main contributions which have called into question the Marxian analysis. It also offers an alternative argument that … Read more