Crisis and cycles

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

Levín, S. (2020). The Economic Crisis: Is it just Covid-19? Kondratieff Cycles. Documento de trabajo del CICP.

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ABSTRACT This paper starts by asking the question: is the magnitude of the current economic crisis due to COVID-19 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 form of national processes, so … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2018). Revisiting the Marxist debate over the ‘breakdown’ of capitalism. A methodological critique. Izquierdas, 39, 182-208.

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ABSTRACT This paper offers a critical reconstruction of the Marxist controversy over the ‘breakdown of capitalism’ developed between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the decade of 1930. In particular, it focuses on how each position in debate conceived the connection between capitalist economic development and the revolutionary action of the working class. … Read more

Lewinger, A. (2012). Guerra cambiaria: ¿falla de coordinación o forma concreta de una crisis de sobreproducción general capitalista? (en colaboración con Straffela, M. & Iannuzzi, P.) [Currency war: coordination failure or concrete form of a capitalist general overproduction crisis?] [in collaboration with Straffela, M. & Ianuzzi, P.]. Razón y Revolución, (23), 7-27.

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ABSTRACT After the outbreak of the 2008 crisis, several international summits addressed the global imbalances issue, without the arisen of an effective solution. This result is due to the way in which capital has been accumulating worldwide in the recent decades, with a growing gap between the level of production and the consumption capacity. This … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2016b). From the financial crisis to the next eleven: limits and contradictions in the Korean process of capital accumulation. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 21(1), 1–25.

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ABSTRACT This paper examines the South Korean economic crisis of 1997-1998 and the subsequent recovery. For this, it first analyses the specific characteristics and longterm development of the process capital accumulation there. The paper claims that, as in the rest of East Asia, capital accumulation in Korea has, since the mid-1960s, revolved around the production … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2006b). La superproducción general en la acumulación actual y la cuestión de la acción de la clase obrera como sujeto revolucionario. Razón y Revolución, (15), 193-208.

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ABSTRACT El artículo parte de analizar las dos principales determinaciones que le dan a la acumulación de capital su forma cíclica más general: los movimientos de la tasa general de ganancia según la evolución relativa de la productividad del trabajo y la composición orgánica del capital con el desarrollo de la producción de plusvalía relativa, … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2008a). Crisis de sobreproducción general y crisis absoluta del modo de producción capitalista. Razón y Revolución, (18), 95–110.

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ABSTRACT Taking up the ideas expounded in a previous debate on the imminent outbreak of a capitalist world crisis, the author revises the structural limits of this social system that leads to the crises and its overcoming. He distinguishes, as well, between the crisis of general overproduction, as a reproduction form of the capitalist mode of production, which doesn’t … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2002a). Estancamiento, crisis y deuda externa: Evidencias de la especificidad de la acumulación de capital en la Argentina. Ciclos en la historia, la economía y la sociedad, 12(23), 3–38.

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ABSTRACT La década del ’90 es comúnmente presentada como de fuerte crecimiento económico argentino. Sin embargo, la expansión física del volumen de actividad fue acompañada por la caída de los valores unitarios, en parte debido al cambio en la composición de la producción. En consecuencia, el estancamiento económico se ha extendido a todo el último … Read more