Brazil

Kornblihtt, J., Seiffer, T., Mussi, E. (2016). Las alternativas al Neoliberalismo como forma de reproducir la particularidad del capital en América del Sur [Alternatives to neoliberalism as a form of reproducing capital specificity in South America]. Pensamiento al margen, 4, 104-135

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ABSTRACT South America’s particularity is its role played to capital in its valorisation at a normal rate of profit despite having a low productivity as the way of recovering the ground rent pay to landowners when buying commodities. The article analyses how this specify has been transformed during post-WWII years by passing from industrialisation policies … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2008b). La unidad mundial de la acumulación de capital en su forma nacional históricamente dominante en América Latina. Crítica de las teorías del desarrollo, de la dependencia y del imperialismo. Presentado en el IV Coloquio Internacional de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Economía Política y Pensamiento Crítico, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT El auge de la llamada nueva división internacional del trabajo parecía haber sumido en la irrelevancia histórica a los procesos nacionales de acumulación de capital caracterizados por la producción de mercancías primarias con destino al mercado mundial (hoy, incluyendo su procesamiento primario, en particular cuando éste resulta fuertemente contaminante) y un mayor o menor … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2016d). Patterns of “State-Led Development” in Brazil and South Korea: The Steel Manufacturing Industries. En G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 215–244). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT In Chapter 9, Nicolas Grinberg offers an alternative account to the mainstream, institutionalist view on the state-led process of economic development in Brazil and South Korea. Focusing on the development of the Brazilian and Korean steel industries, Grinberg claims that the specific form of participation of each economy in the production of relative surplus-value … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2013a). Capital accumulation and ground-rent in Brazil: 1953–2008. International Review of Applied Economics, 27(4), 449–471.

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ABSTRACT The paper measures the size of primary-sector surpluses in the form of ground-rent appropriated by social subjects other than landowners in Brazil, and assesses their weight in supporting the process of capital accumulation during the period 1953–2008. For that purpose, the paper identifies the mechanisms through which state policies channelled a portion of ground-rent to capital, especially in the … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2008). From the “Miracle” to the “Lost Decade”: intersectoral transfers and external credit in the Brazilian economy. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 28(2), 291–311.

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ABSRTACT The present paper examines the Brazilian experience from the ‘Economic Miracle’ to the ‘Lost Decade’. Its aim is to advance an alternative measurement of the flows of extraordinary wealth (i.e. ground-rent and net external credit) available for appropriation in the Brazilian economy and to asses their relevance in sustaining the process of accumulation of industrial capital. That is done … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2013b). The political economy of Brazilian (Latin American) and Korean (East Asian) comparative development: moving beyond nation-centred approaches. New Political Economy, 18(2), 171–197.

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ABSTRACT The article argues that in order to grasp fully Brazilian and Korean post-WWII developmental and growth experiences, it is first necessary to account for global-economy dynamics and the transformations in the International Division of Labour. These, together with local factors that particularly affect the objective conditions for the valorisation of capital in different productive sectors, explain the specific characteristics … Read more

Guevara, S. (2016). Integración automotriz en el Mercosur y sobreexplotación obrera: formas y contenido [Locomotive integration in MERCOSUR and workers overexplotation: forms and content]. Cadernos Cemarx, (8), 65-84.

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ABSTRACT This work aims to analyze the role played by the process of productive restructuring in the MERCOSUR automotive sector, produced since the early years of the 1990s, in its development, especially in the growth cycle opened from early 2000s. In this paper we consider: the time of national processes Argentina and Brazil where it … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2016a). From Populist Developmentalism to Liberal Neodevelopmentalism: The Specificity and Historical Development of Brazilian Capital Accumulation. Critical Historical Studies, 3(1), 65–104.

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ABSTRACT This article analyzes the trajectory of Brazilian society between the time of populist developmentalism and the emergence of neodevelopmentalism. Challenging mainstream accounts, it argues that the various policy regimes consolidating throughout the period have been forms of realization of the autonomously regulated process of capital accumulation on a global scale. More concretely, it is … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2015). On the Brazilian ground-rent appropriated by landowners. Revista de Economia Politica, 35(4), 799–824.

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ABSTRACT This paper presents a measurement of the portion of the Brazilian ground rent appropriated by agrarian landowners during 1955-2005 and assesses its importance relative to other forms of surplus value appropriated in the Brazilian economy. In pursuing this task, the paper also puts forward original estimations of several time-series that are crucial for the … Read more

Grinberg, N., & Starosta, G. (2015). From global capital accumulation to varieties of centre-leftism in South America. En S. Spronk & J. R. Webber (Eds.), Crisis and Contradiction: Marxist Perspectives on Latin American in the Global Economy (pp. 236–272). Leiden: Brill

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ABSTRACT In the last decade there has been a broad shift to the left in South America. However, different types of political economy regimes can be discerned within this general common trend. There is currently a relatively widespread consensus that two different varieties of centre-left administrations are in office in the region. Mainstream analyses distinguish … Read more