Critique of political economy

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2010). La acción voluntaria de la libre subjetividad, o sea la forma concreta con que el ser social históricamente determinado realiza su necesidad [The voluntary action of free subjectivity, that is, the concrete form in which the historically determined social being realises its necessity]. Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT Iñigo Carrera respond to D’Alessandro y Kejsefman (2009) “Hacer o qué hacer, esa es la cuestión. De la teoría a la acción política” DOWNLOAD PDF (IN SPANISH)

Starosta, G. (2013). The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital. En R. Bellofiore, G. Starosta, & P. D. Thomas (Eds.), In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (pp. 233–264). Leiden: Brill.

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ABSTRACT Guido Starosta’s chapter, ‘The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital’, argues that Marx’s exposition of the forms of the real subsumption of labour to capital – in particular, the system of machinery of large-scale industry – constitutes the dialectical presentation of the determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. Starosta … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2014). Dos debates en torno a la renta de la tierra y sus implicancias para el análisis de la acumulación de capital en la Argentina [Two debates on ground rent and its consequences for the analysis of capital accumulation in Argentina]. Razón y Revolución, (27), 63–83.

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ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct two significant debates on Marx’s explanation of ground-rent. The first debate concerns the source of surplus-value that constitutes ground-rent and is linked to the problem of the international flow of surplus-value between countries. The second discussion deals with the nature of differential rent II and is … Read more

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

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