Latin America

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2004). La crisis de la representación política como forma concreta de reproducirse la base específica de la acumulación de capital en Argentina. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Política, (15), 62–87.

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ABSTRACT En Argentina, la acumulación se centra en capitales extranjeros que se restringen al mercado interno gracias a apropiar renta de la tierra, plusvalía liberada por los pequeños capitales y, sobre todo, pagar la fuerza de trabajo por debajo de su valor. Esta base contrajo el producto total de valor desde los 80, pese al … 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. (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

Guevara, S. (2010b). Poulantzas y la determinación del Estado capitalista: una discusión a partir de la integración industrial en el Mercosur [Poulantzas and the determination of the capitalist state: a discussion based on industrial integration in Mercosur]. Espacios Públicos, 13(27), 113–134

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ABSTRACT In this paper we proposed a systematic discussion of Poulantzas’ study on capitalist State. From this discussion, we advanced in recognition of general determinations of the more concrete phenomenon, namely the development of the capitalist state as the nation-state from the perspective of the critique of political economy developed by Marx. The development continues … Read more

Guevara, S. (2010a). La acción gremial de los trabajadores automotrices en Argentina, desde la posdevaluación hasta la crisis actual [The trade union action of the automotive workers in Argentina, from postdevaluation to the current crisis]. Latin American profiles, 18 (36), 121 – 141.

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ABSTRACT This paper analyses the characteristics that shaped the actions of the employees of the automotive companies in Argentina during the growth process of the industry until the beginning of the current crisis, in order to contribute to the knowledge of the prospects and limitations of those actions. From the viewpoint of industrial relations, changes … Read more