Latin America

Kornblihtt, J. (2019). El contenido mundial de la crisis venezolana [The global content of the venezuelan crisis]. Rosa, 1, 63-78

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ABSTRACT El análisis de las causas de la crisis en Venezuela oscila, por una parte, en culpar al imperialismo y sus aliados locales por una “guerra económica” contra las supuestas políticas populares y de independencia nacional del gobierno de Maduro y, por otra, en marcar su origen en la corrupción y el despilfarro. Estas posiciones … Read more

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)

Starosta, G. (2019). Global Capital Accumulation and the Specificity of Latin America. En M. Vidal, T. Smith, & T. Rotta (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (pp. 661-678). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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ABSTRACT This chapter addresses the theme of Latin America and its relationship with the works and ideas of Karl Marx from three different angles. First, it offers an overview of the textual evidence of the scattered passages in which Marx comments on the realities of Latin American countries. In the second place, it provides a … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2018b). Sobre las apariencias e inversiones en los fundamentos de la teoría marxista de la dependencia [On appearances and inversions in the foundations of marxist dependency theory]. In Elías, A., Oyhantçabal Benelli, G., Alonso, R. (coord.) Uruguay y el continente en la cruz de los caminos. Enfoques de economía política (pp. 37-47). Montevideo: COFE, INESUR, Fundación Trabajo y Capital.

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RESUMEN [Realizado por los coordinadores del libro]: Este artículo, por el tipo de abordaje que realiza y su diálogo con otros autores, requiere algunas consideraciones preliminares. Su objetivo es el abordaje de un debate por demás relevante: el de las especificidades de las economías latinoamericanas, o dicho en otras palabras: qué tipo de capitalismo tenemos … Read more

Seiffer, T., & Rivas Castro, G. (2017). La política social como forma de reproducción de la especificidad histórica de la acumulación de capital en Argentina (2003-2016) [The social policy as form of the historical specificity of capital accumulation reproduction in Argentina (2003-2016)]. Estudios del trabajo, (54), 91–117.

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ABSTRACT The period of Kirchnerist governments (2003-2015) meant record growth in terms of spending on social policies. It was presented as one of the evidences of a change in the relationship between market and state. Macri’s government (2015-present), with its policy of adjustment, appears as its counterpart. The common explanatory element in the analyses lies … Read more

Perez Trento, N. (2017). El paro agrario de 2008 y la especificidad de la acumulación de capital en la Argentina. Revista de Economía Crítica, 23, 43-59

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ABSTRACT One of the most significant agrarian conflicts in Argentina unleashed in May 2008. In brief, the confronting subjects gathered into two groups, leaded by the agrarian organizations, on one hand, and the national administration, on the other. This paper analyzes the economical determinations borne in the political actions performed by these social actors in … Read more

Kornblihtt, J. & Dachevsky, F. (2017). Crisis y renta de la tierra petrolera en Venezuela: crítica a la teoría de la Guerra Económica. Cuadernos del CENDES, 94, 1-30

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ABSTRACT The Venezuelan crisis is for a part of Chavistas intellectuals an Economic War where a popular government clash with local and foreign monopolies who try to undermine it in favour of a neoliberal Project. In contrast, opposition ideologues argue that the Budget waste caused by the corrupt and populist government trying to eternize in power is the problem. In this paper, … Read more

Dachevsky F. & Kornblihtt, J. (2017). The Reproduction and Crisis of Capitalism in Venezuela under Chavismo. Latin American Perspectives, 212 (44), 78–93

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ABSTRACT The current crisis in Venezuela is sometimes said to have been provoked by the response of imperialism and the local oligarchy to the fundamental changes in economic and political relations fostered during the administrations of Hugo Chávez. A quantitative study using various statistical sources shows that the significant increase in oil rent during the … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2023). Prices, productivity, and agricultural ground rent: neither ‘deteriorated terms of trade’ nor ‘unequal exchange’ . Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT Dependency and underdevelopment theories present the deterioration of the terms of trade as proof of their conceptions. They explicitly exclude a higher increase of labor productivity in the agricultural sector vis-à-vis the industrial one as a cause for this deterioration. The article measures this relative evolution for 1910-2009 based on the USA, which is … Read more

Fitzsimons, A., & Guevara, S. (2018). The Argentine automotive industry and its sources of profit: a long-term analysis (1960-2013). América Latina en la Historia Económica, 25(1), 239-274.

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ABSTRACT This paper studies the historical development of the automotive industry in Argentina from 1960 to 2013. The main argument is that multinational companies operating locally had an specific or distinctive way of capital valorisation, vis à vis other national cases. This specificity was essentially the appropriation of agrarian ground rent by the automotive industrial … Read more