Latin America

Iñigo Carrera, J. (1999b). La apropiación de la renta de la tierra pampeana y su efecto sobre la acumulación del capital agrario [Appropriation of ground rent in Argentina and its effect on the accumulation of agrarian capital]. Presented at Primeras Jornadas Interdisciplinarias de Estudios Agrarios y Agroindustriales, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT En el trabajo a presentar se analiza el curso seguido por la renta de la tierra agraria argentina en su proceso primario de apropiación. Se diferencia así entre la apropiación directa por los terratenientes, y la mediación del estado nacional en la apropiación de la renta a través de la sobrevaluación de la moneda … Read more

Guevara, S. (2011a). Los cambios de la acumulación de capital a nivel mundial y los procesos regionales de integración: un análisis de los distintos enfoques teóricos [Changes in global capital accumulation and regional integration processes: an analysis of the different theoretical approaches]. Revista Política Hoje, 20(1), 51-74.

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ABSTRACT Since the 1970’s was developing the rapid transformation of the conditions under which the society produces its life (organisation of work processes, circulation patterns of production, political forms of organisation and regulation of social life, etc.). This transformation has been conceptualised in different ways according to different theoretical perspectives. Regional integration has developed a new … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2014). Dos debates en torno a la renta de la tierra y sus implicancias para el análisis de la acumulación de capital en la Argentina [Two debates on ground rent and its consequences for the analysis of capital accumulation in Argentina]. Razón y Revolución, (27), 63–83.

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ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct two significant debates on Marx’s explanation of ground-rent. The first debate concerns the source of surplus-value that constitutes ground-rent and is linked to the problem of the international flow of surplus-value between countries. The second discussion deals with the nature of differential rent II and is … Read more

Starosta, G. (2016). Revisiting the New International Division of Labour Thesis. En G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 79–103). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT In Chap. 4 , Guido Starosta turns his attention to the task of the critical reconstruction of the NIDL thesis. While acknowledging the insights of the original thesis, Starosta argues that the foundation for the emergence of the NIDL does not reside in the intensification of the manufacturing division of labour, that is, in … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2016d). Patterns of “State-Led Development” in Brazil and South Korea: The Steel Manufacturing Industries. En G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 215–244). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT In Chapter 9, Nicolas Grinberg offers an alternative account to the mainstream, institutionalist view on the state-led process of economic development in Brazil and South Korea. Focusing on the development of the Brazilian and Korean steel industries, Grinberg claims that the specific form of participation of each economy in the production of relative surplus-value … Read more

Fitzsimons, A., & Guevara, S. (2016). Transnational Corporations and the “Restructuring” of the Argentine Automotive Industry: Change or Continuity? En G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 183–213). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT This paper studies the historical development of the Argentine automotive industry since the mid-50s to the present. It argues that, first, the peculiar characteristics of low scales of production, obsolete technology and the resulting low global competitiveness of the local auto industry in its initial stages were determined by the specific form of capital … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2016c). The Global Accumulation of Capital and Ground-Rent in “Resource Rich” Countries. In G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 55–77). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT This chapter provides fresh insight into the ´old´ international division of labour and into the development of capitalism in ´resource rich´ countries whose longstanding historical role in the world market has been to produce ground rent bearing commodities. Following Chapter One, this chapter builds upon the notion of capital accumulation as being global in … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2017b). Las grandes empresas agropecuarias en Argentina: los casos de Cresud y El Tejar [The big agricultural enterprises in Argentina: The cases of Cresud and El Tejar]. Cuadernos de Economía, 36(71), 469–488.

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ABSTRACT This article presents an in-depth study of the ‘life story’ of the two companies described by the press and the literature as the largest in Pampas agricultural production: Cresud and El Tejar. The objective of this study is to provide empirical evidence and elements of analysis to assess whether the so-called ‘big agricultural enterprises’, which have sprung up … Read more

Iñigo, L., & Río, V. (2017). Extensión de la escolaridad y obligatoriedad de la escuela secundaria en Argentina: el papel de la universalización de la lectura y escritura [Schooling Extension and Compulsory Secondary Education in Argentina: the role of the Universalization of Reading and Writing Abilities]. Universitas humanística, 83(83), 213-243.

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ABSTRACT This article approaches the relation between extending compulsory schooling and the development of reading and writing abilities in Argentina. First, it examines the universalization of these abilities in the capitalist society, and then it analyzes recent transformations in labor processes that underlie the extension of the average schooling years. Finally, it focuses on the … Read more