Juan Kornblihtt

Kornblihtt, J., & Casique Herrera, M. (2021). La crisis venezolana como expresión de la sobreproducción mundial de petróleo pesado [Venezuelan crisis as an expression of worldwide overproduction of heavy oil]. Cuadernos de Economía Crítica, 7(14), 129-153.

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ABSTRACT: The analysis of the causes behind Venezuela’s current crisis ranges between blaming imperialism and its local allies for organizing an “economicwarfare” against the alleged popular politics and national independence of Maduro’s government and explaining its origins in government corruptionand wastefulness. All of these arguments obviate the global essence of the national forms of capitalism … Read more

Dachevsky, F., & Kornblihtt, J. (2020). La apropiación de renta de la tierra petrolera por el capital automotriz en Venezuela durante el chavismo y su crisis [The appropriation of oil ground-rent by automotive capitals in Venezuela along Chavism, and its crisis]. In G. A. Pinto, S. Guevara, & A. Arteaga García (Eds.), La industria automotriz en América Latina: Estudios de las relaciones entre trabajo, tecnología y desarrollo socioeconómico (pp. 272-298). Editora UTFPR / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

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ABSTRACT In this chapter, the automotive industry located in a country clearly specialized in oil production is studied. The authors analyze the features and behavior of the automotive sector in Venezuela, in light of the opportunities to participate in the appropriation of oil rent that terminal companies have had so far. The extremely low productivity … Read more

Kornblihtt, J. (2019). El contenido mundial de la crisis venezolana [The global content of the venezuelan crisis]. Rosa, 1, 63-78

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ABSTRACT El análisis de las causas de la crisis en Venezuela oscila, por una parte, en culpar al imperialismo y sus aliados locales por una “guerra económica” contra las supuestas políticas populares y de independencia nacional del gobierno de Maduro y, por otra, en marcar su origen en la corrupción y el despilfarro. Estas posiciones … 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