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Introduction
0.1 State-Centred Accounts: Neoliberal and Statist Approaches. 0.1.1 Neoliberal Approaches. 0.1.2 Statist Approaches. 0.1.3 Problems of State-Centred Approaches. 0.2 Global Capital Accumulation and the Development of the East Asian and Latin American National Economies. 0.3 Summary and Conclusions.
Part 1: The Specificity of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capitalist Development.
Introduction to Part 1.
1 Capital Accumulation in Brazil and Korea: An Overview.
1.1 Capital Accumulation and the Brazilian State. 1.1.1 Statist Import-Substituting Industrialisation. 1.1.2 Neoliberal Import-Substituting Industrialisation. 1.2 Capital Accumulation and the Korean State. 1.2.1 Mild Import-Substituting Industrialisation. 1.2.2 Export-Oriented Industrialisation. 1.3 Summary and Conclusions. Appendix.
2 The Valorisation of Capital in Brazil and Korea.
2.1 Valorisation of the Total Social Capital and of the Portions Invested in the Industrial and Agrarian Sectors. 2.2 Rate of Profit of Social, Industrial (Manufacturing) and Agrarian Capital. 2.2.1 Capital Advanced for Valorisation Economy-Wide and in the Industrial and Agrarian Sectors. 2.3 Surplus Value in the Form of Ground-Rent. 2.3.1 Ground-Rent Appropriated by Those Other Than Landowners. 2.3.2 Ground-Rent Appropriated by the Private Owners of the Natural Conditions of Production. 2.3.3 Total Size of Ground-Rent. 2.3.4 Ground-Rent Relative to Total Value and Surplus Value Production. 2.4 Inflows of Aid Resources and Interest-Bearing (Loanable) Capital. 2.5 Summary and Conclusions.
3 Determinants of the Valorisation Capacity of Industrial Capital in Brazil and Korea: The Steel, Automotive and Semiconductor Industries.
3.1 Development of the System of Machinery and the Productive Attributes of the Collective Worker in Large-Scale Industrial Productions. 3.1.1 Transformations in the Global Steel Industry. 3.1.2 Transformations in the Global Automotive Industry. 3.1.3 Transformations in the Global Semiconductors Industry. 3.2 Summary and Conclusions. Appendix 3.1: The Determinants of the Rate of Valorisation of Industrial Capital in the Korean, Japanese and Brazilian Steel Industries. Appendix 3.2: The Rate of Valorisation of Industrial Capital in the Korean and Japanese Automobile Industries. Appendix 3.3: Brazilian, Korean, Japanese, Argentinian and Mexican Automotive Industries: Base Data.
4 Growth and Development Characteristics of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capital Accumulation.
4.1 Economic Growth. 4.2 Industrial Exports. 4.3 Labour Productivity in the Industrial Sector. 4.4 Individual and Collective Characteristics of the Industrial Labour-Force. 4.5 Cost and Reproduction Patterns of the Industrial Labour-Force. 4.6 Labour-Market Institutions and Working-Class Political Representation. 4.7 Summary and Conclusions. Appendix.
Part 2: Historical Development of the Brazilian and Korean Processes of Capital Accumulation.
Introduction to Part 2.
5 Brazil and Korea up to the Mid-1960s.
5.1 Brazil: From Nationalistic to Developmentalist Populism. 5.2 Korea: From Autocratic Democracy to Electoral Autocracy. 5.3 End of Chapter Conclusions.
6 Brazil and Korea between the Mid-1960s and the Early 1970s.
6.1 Brazil: From ‘Corrective Inflation’ to the ‘Economic Miracle’. 6.2 Korea: From the ‘Democratic Restoration’ to the Yusin Republic. 6.3 End of Chapter Conclusions.
7 Brazil and Korea between the Early 1970s and the Early 1980s.
7.1 Brazil: From the First ‘Oil Shock’ to the ‘Debt Crisis’. 7.2 Korea: From the Heavy and Chemical Industry Plan to the Comprehensive Stabilisation Programme. 7.3 End of Chapter Conclusions.
8 Brazil and Korea between the Early 1980s and the Early 1990s.
8.1 Brazil: From the imf ‘Stabilisation’ Programme to the Hyperinflation Crisis. 8.2 Korea: From the Kwangju Massacre to the Great Workers’ Struggle. 8.3 End of Chapter Conclusions.
9 Brazil and Korea between the Early 1990s and the Early 2000s.
9.1 Brazil: From the Neoliberal Reforms to the Neoliberal Crisis. 9.2 Korea: From the Conservative Coalition to the ‘Democratic Market Economy’. 9.3 End of Chapter Conclusions.
10 Brazil and Korea Between the Early 2000s and the Mid-2010s.
10.1 Brazil: From Neoliberalism to Neodevelopmentalism. 10.2 Korea: From ‘Participatory Government’ to ‘Post-Democracy’. 10.3 End of Chapter Conclusions.
Summary and Conclusions of the Book.
Appendix A: The Qualitative and Quantitative Determination of the Capitalist Ground-Rent. Appendix B: Methodological Bases and Sources. Appendix C: Statistical Tables.
SÍNTESIS DEL CONTENIDO
Challenging mainstream nation-centred theories of economic development, Nicolás Grinberg examines the specificities of capitalist development in Brazil and South Korea by starting from their modes of participation in the international division of labour and hence in the production of surplus value on a global scale. Contrary to those theories, he does not consider these as resulting simply from the economic policies of nation states and their associated political institutions; nor from local class-struggle dynamics or geopolitical developments. Rather, drawing on key insights from Marx’s critique of political economy, his analysis begins by recognising that the process of capitalist development is global in terms of its economic dynamics and historical trends, and national only in its political and institutional forms of realisation. State-mediated patterns of economic development and institutional change in Brazil and Korea, as well as the intra- and inter-state political processes through which these have come about, are then considered mediations in the conformation and reproduction of the nationally differentiated, uneven process of capital’s valorisation on a global scale.