Global unity

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)

Fitzsimons, A. y Starosta, G. (2019) ¿Una mercancía “como cualquier otra”? Reexaminando la determinación del valor de la fuerza de trabajo [A commodity “like all other commodities”? Re-examining the determination of the value of labour power]. Economia e Sociedade 28 (3), p. 665-687.

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ABSTRACT This article addresses the process of production of labour power with a view to re-examining Marx’s stance on the determination of the value of this ‘peculiar commodity’. In order to do so, the article critically reviews the main contributions which have called into question the Marxian analysis. It also offers an alternative argument that … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. y Guevara, S. (2019). Argentina en la industria automotriz global: una discusión acerca de la comparación internacional de la productividad del trabajo [Argentina in the global automotive industry: a discussion about the international comparison of labor productivity]. Cuadernos de Economía Crítica 10(5), 43-70

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ABSTRACT In a recent issue in this journal, Pinazo, Córdoba and Dinerstein (2017) raised a discussion about the forms of development of the automotive industry in Argentina. These authors portray an image of an automotive industry with globally standardized products and export-oriented dynamics, explained by high levels of labor productivity and low labor costs. In contrast, from … 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

Starosta, G., & Fitzsimons, A. (2018). Rethinking the determination of the value of labor power. Review of Radical Political Economics, 50(1), 99–115.

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ABSTRACT This article critically examines the received wisdom on the value of labor power that posits the workers’ material reproduction and the class struggle as two independent factors that determine the bundle of wage-goods consumed by the working class. It shows that this reading has no solid textual basis on Marx’s writings. Furthermore, it argues … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2018). Institutions and Capitalist Development: A Critique of the New Institutional Economics. Science & Society, 82(2), 203-233.

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ABSTRACT New Institutional Economics (NIE) is a branch of neoclassical economics that regards the institutional setting of exchange (markets) as the key force accounting for differences in nations’ economic performance. Though originally focused on economic institutions, this approach has paid increasing attention to the political institutions giving birth to the former. Why Nations Fail? by … Read more

Charnock, G., & Starosta, G. (2018). Towards a “Unified Field Theory” of Uneven Development: Human Productive Subjectivity, Capital and the International. Global Society, 32(3), 324-343.

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ABSTRACT This article puts labour, and its historically changing forms of existence, at the centre of the theorisation of uneven international development. It advocates a consciously dialectical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in historical-geographical materialism, and in the work of Neil Smith in particular. It argues, first, that geopolitical modes of explanation cannot be … Read more

Caligaris, G., & Starosta, G. (2018). The determination of the “historical and moral component” of the value of labour-power. Caderno CRH, 31(82), 135–150.

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ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to challenge the prevailing Marxist interpretation of what Marx called the “historical and moral component” of the value of labour-power, and to offer an alternative reading which is consistent with the foundations of the critique of political economy. In order to do so, the first part of the … 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