Critique of political economy

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2013b). Ser social y producción de conciencia: Economistas para qué [Social being and conciousness production: on the economists]. Presentado en las II Jornadas de Pensamiento Crítico Latinoamericano/Seminario Internacional REDEM-SEPLA, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto.

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ABSTRACT The debates about the education of economists focus on the curriculum, particularly on its level of pluralism. However, the question about the social being of economics students, which determines their need to develop their scientific consciousness with a certain content, has been disregarded. Apparently, economics students are free individuals pursuing objective knowledge. Underlying this … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2013). Un balance crítico de la teoría marxista y neomarxista de las clases sociales [A critical balance of the marxist and neomarxist theory of social classes]. En E. Chávez Molina (comp.), Desigualdad y movilidad social en el mundo contemporáneo. Aportes empíricos y conceptuales: Argentina, China, España, Francia (pp. 71–88). Imago Mundi.

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ABSTRACT In the last decades, critics to marxian analysis of social classes have developed so widely within the social sciences that we seem to have reached the point of, in order to rule out such analysis, it would suffice with mention its “so many times pooved already” apocryphal and backward character. Against this position, in … 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

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2007a), Conocer el capital hoy. Usar críticamente El Capital [Knowing capital today. Using Capital critically]. Imago Mundi

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Iñigo Carrera, Juan Conocer el capital hoy. Usar críticamente El Capital. Volumen 1: La mercancía, o la conciencia libre como forma de la conciencia enajenada [Knowing capital today. Using Capital critically.  Volume 1: The commodity, or the simplest form of alienated consciousness] Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires, 2007. ISBN: 978-950-793-066-9 TABLE OF CONTENTS – Preface The question Cognition … Read more

Caligaris, G. y Fitzsimons, A. (2012), Relaciones económicas y políticas. Aportes para el estudio de su unidad con base en la obra de Karl Marx, FCE, UBA.

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Caligaris, Gastón y Fitzsimons, Alejandro Relaciones económicas y políticas. Aportes para el estudio de su unidad con base en la obra de Karl Marx Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2012. ISBN:  978-950-29-1360-5 TABLE OF CONTENTS – Prólogo – Juan Iñigo Carrera – Acerca del carácter de la relación base … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2013a). Method: from the Grundrisse to Capital. En R. Bellofiore, G. Starosta, & P. D. Thomas (Eds.), In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (pp. 43–70). Leiden: Brill.

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ABSTRACT Juan Iñigo Carrera’s chapter, ‘Method: from the Grundrisse to Capital’, explores the development of Marx’s method, from the 1840s onwards. Iñigo Carrera argues that the Grundrisse constitute a step in the development of an original method: the reproduction of the concrete by means of thought, as opposed to its representation – a method which, … Read more

Iñigo, L., & Río, V. (2017). Extensión de la escolaridad y obligatoriedad de la escuela secundaria en Argentina: el papel de la universalización de la lectura y escritura [Schooling Extension and Compulsory Secondary Education in Argentina: the role of the Universalization of Reading and Writing Abilities]. Universitas humanística, 83(83), 213-243.

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ABSTRACT This article approaches the relation between extending compulsory schooling and the development of reading and writing abilities in Argentina. First, it examines the universalization of these abilities in the capitalist society, and then it analyzes recent transformations in labor processes that underlie the extension of the average schooling years. Finally, it focuses on the … 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