Latin America

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

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