Latin America

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

by

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

by

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

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.

by

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.

by

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.

by

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

by

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

Guevara, S. (2017). Lucha de clases y acumulación de capital en Argentina 1973-1983: discusiones a partir de los estudios sobre la acción política obrera [Class struggle and capital accumulation in Argentina 1973-1983: discussions based on studies of political labor action]. Izquierdas, 33, 69-89.

by

ABSTRACT The class struggle in Argentina from 1973 to 1983 passed from a process of increasing and complex political mobilization to its quasi-complete paralysis through the state’s terrorist repression. This contrasting course followed by the class struggle has been the object of numerous studies that try to advance in their explanation. In this paper, some … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2017a), Los países productores de materias primas en la unidad mundial de la acumulación de capital: un enfoque alternativo [Raw material producing countries in the global unity of capital accumulation: an alternative approach]. Cuadernos de Economía Crítica, 06, 15-43.

by

ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to present the fundamentals of an alternative approach to the nature of national economies historically specialised in the production of raw materials for the world market, recently appeared in the academic literature. In order to do so, the article discusses the relevance of recognising capital as a social … Read more

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

by

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