Global unity

Starosta, G. (2010a). Global commodity chains and the Marxian law of value. Antipode, 42(2), 433–465.

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ABSTRACT This paper develops a Marxian critique of the “global commodity chain” (GCC) paradigm. It is argued that this approach fails to provide an actual explanation of the phenomenon it sets about to investigate. Instead, it offers a typological description of the immediate manifestations of the determinations at stake. As a consequence, the GCC approach … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2010). Where Is Latin America Going? FTAA or “Twenty-first-Century Socialism”? Latin American Perspectives, 37(1), 185–202.

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ABSTRACT The current political and economic situation in Latin America is characterised by a marked difference between South American countries, on one side, and Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, on the other. While the former have seen the resuscitation of pseudo-import-substitution-industrialization policies by neopopulist governments, the latter are increasingly attached to the neoliberal project. … 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

Grinberg, N. (2013a). Capital accumulation and ground-rent in Brazil: 1953–2008. International Review of Applied Economics, 27(4), 449–471.

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ABSTRACT The paper measures the size of primary-sector surpluses in the form of ground-rent appropriated by social subjects other than landowners in Brazil, and assesses their weight in supporting the process of capital accumulation during the period 1953–2008. For that purpose, the paper identifies the mechanisms through which state policies channelled a portion of ground-rent to capital, especially in the … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2008). From the “Miracle” to the “Lost Decade”: intersectoral transfers and external credit in the Brazilian economy. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 28(2), 291–311.

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ABSRTACT The present paper examines the Brazilian experience from the ‘Economic Miracle’ to the ‘Lost Decade’. Its aim is to advance an alternative measurement of the flows of extraordinary wealth (i.e. ground-rent and net external credit) available for appropriation in the Brazilian economy and to asses their relevance in sustaining the process of accumulation of industrial capital. That is done … Read more

Grinberg, N., & Starosta, G. (2009). The Limits of Studies in Comparative Development of East Asia and Latin America: the case of land reform and agrarian policies. Third World Quarterly, 30(4), 761–777.

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ABSTRACT This paper critically examines the widespread belief that the early implementation of comprehensive land reforms prior to the industrialisation process, coupled with subsequent agrarian state policies channelling the intersectoral transfer of resources, has been a central determinant of East Asia’s (mainly Taiwan’s and South Korea’s) outperformance of Latin America. We argue that, although those … 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