Ground rent

Levín, S. (2019) ¿Ha finalizado la fase húmeda de los ciclos de lluvia en la región pampeana? [Has the wet phase of the rain cycles in the Pampas region ended?] Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT El presente trabajo intenta contestar la pregunta de su título y para ello se hizo una actualización de otro realizado por el autor en 2011 “Fluctuaciones cíclicas de las precipitaciones en la Región Pampeana”. Se actualizó las series mensuales de precipitaciones de 32 estaciones meteorológicas hasta mayo de 2018. A partir de allí se … Read more

Pérez Trento, N. (2019a). Dos décadas de conflicto en torno al uso propio de semillas de soja genéticamente modificada en Argentina: fases del enfrentamiento, acumulación de capital y actores sociales (1996-2018) [Two decades of conflict over seed saving of genetically modified soybeans in Argentina: conflict phases, capital accumulation, and social actors (1996-2018)]. Mundo Agrario, 43(20), pp. 1-21

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ABSTRACT In this paper we aim to analyze the content of the conflict that arose in Argentina over genetically modified soybeans, which involved a multiplicity of social actors. In fact, although the claim for the payment of royalties was led by Monsanto, the breeders made the same demands, allying with the firm. These pretensions would … Read more

Perez Trento, N. (2017). El paro agrario de 2008 y la especificidad de la acumulación de capital en la Argentina. Revista de Economía Crítica, 23, 43-59

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ABSTRACT One of the most significant agrarian conflicts in Argentina unleashed in May 2008. In brief, the confronting subjects gathered into two groups, leaded by the agrarian organizations, on one hand, and the national administration, on the other. This paper analyzes the economical determinations borne in the political actions performed by these social actors in … Read more

Caligaris, G. & Perez Trento, N. (2017). Capital y renta diferencial de tipo II: una revisión crítica de la historia de las interpretaciones marxistas. Economía Teoría y Práctica, 47, 217-248.

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ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical reconstruction of the history of interpretations of the Marxist explanation of differential rent II. We show that, in contrast to how it is commonly portrayed, the current hegemonic interpretation within Marxist theory is far from immutable and incontrovertible. Alongside it, there exist at least two relevant interpretations, one of … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2023). Prices, productivity, and agricultural ground rent: neither ‘deteriorated terms of trade’ nor ‘unequal exchange’ . Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT Dependency and underdevelopment theories present the deterioration of the terms of trade as proof of their conceptions. They explicitly exclude a higher increase of labor productivity in the agricultural sector vis-à-vis the industrial one as a cause for this deterioration. The article measures this relative evolution for 1910-2009 based on the USA, which is … Read more

Fitzsimons, A., & Guevara, S. (2018). The Argentine automotive industry and its sources of profit: a long-term analysis (1960-2013). América Latina en la Historia Económica, 25(1), 239-274.

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ABSTRACT This paper studies the historical development of the automotive industry in Argentina from 1960 to 2013. The main argument is that multinational companies operating locally had an specific or distinctive way of capital valorisation, vis à vis other national cases. This specificity was essentially the appropriation of agrarian ground rent by the automotive industrial … Read more

Caligaris, G., & Pérez Trento, N. (2018). Propiedad de la tierra y acción política de la clase terrateniente argentina. Una crítica a la tesis del poder terrateniente [Landed property and political action of the Argentinean landlord class. A critique of the landlord power’s thesis]. Temas y Debates, 35, 71–92.

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ABSTRACT It is a conventional claim in Argentine history analysis that the agrarian production is economically and politically dominated by large landlords who, on this basis, have the capacity to decisively determine the course of the national economy. This article critically examines the empirical basis and arguments underneath this conception. To this end, this article … Read more

Kornblihtt, J., Seiffer, T., Mussi, E. (2016). Las alternativas al Neoliberalismo como forma de reproducir la particularidad del capital en América del Sur [Alternatives to neoliberalism as a form of reproducing capital specificity in South America]. Pensamiento al margen, 4, 104-135

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ABSTRACT South America’s particularity is its role played to capital in its valorisation at a normal rate of profit despite having a low productivity as the way of recovering the ground rent pay to landowners when buying commodities. The article analyses how this specify has been transformed during post-WWII years by passing from industrialisation policies … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2017). La renta de la tierra. Formas, fuentes y apropiación. Imago Mundi.

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Iñigo Carrera, Juan La renta de la tierra. Formas, fuentes y apropiación Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires, 2017. ISBN: 978-950-793-257-1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Prólogo I. La renta de la tierra: formas y fuentes Monopolio terrateniente sobre condicionamientos naturales a la productividad del trabajo que utiliza específicamente a la tierra como instrumento directo de producción La renta de … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2009c). Renta diferencial y producción agraria en Argentina: respuesta a Pablo Anino y Esteban Mercatante. Publicado por el Instituto del Pensamiento Socialista Karl Marx, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT Intervención de Juan Iñigo Carrera en el debate motivado a partir del artículo “Renta agraria y desarrollo capitalista en Argentina” de Pablo Anino y Esteban Mercatante en la revista Lucha de Clases N°9. En este caso, Iñigo Carrera responde a la intervención de Anino y Mercatante. KEYWORDS: Renta de la tierra; Dependencia; Producción Agraria; Argentina … Read more