In this paper we examine from a sectoral point of view the main trends of investment in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s and its relation to value added and to imports and exports coefficients. It is argued for the existence of three expansion fronts: infrastructure, natural resources and mass...

In this paper we examine from a sectoral point of view the main trends of investment in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s and its relation to value added and to imports and exports coefficients. It is argued for the existence of three expansion fronts: infrastructure, natural resources and mass...

Productive structure, external constraint and economic growth: the Brazilian experience - We analyze the sharp drop in the growth rate that has been experienced by the Brazilian economy since the 1980s, using the balance-of-payments-constrained growth approach. Empirical results show that growth...

This article presents a critique of the solution of the Temporal Single System Marxism (TSS) for the problem of transforming values into prices, which establishes that values and prices are simultaneously determined in a sucession of periods of production and circulation; the value transferred...

This article analyses the “new solution” for the transformation problem, which redefines the concepts of money and variable capital and assumes that the value added remains invariable through the transformation process. It argues that the “new solution” can not be accepted because: (i)...

O artigo analisa a noção de capital fictício em Marx a partir das idéias de autonomia dos valores relativamente aos preços e de autonomia da circulação relativamente à produção. Explora, nesta análise, o debate sobre a forma valor entre marxistas, e a noção de capital financeiro,...

This paper reviews two elaborations on alternatives to capitalism (Roemer, 1994 e Burczak, 2006). The present round of the controversy on socialism, planning vs. market, was triggered by the collapse of the bureaucratic regime in the URSS. One key feature of the present round is the influence of...

Metamorphoses of capitalism may be investigated following a dialogue between two theoretical approaches: long waves of capitalist development (Freeman & Louçã, 2001) and systemic cycles of accumulation (Arrighi, 1994). This dialogue organizes this paper. The first section associates the...

Spanish Abstract: El presente trabajo analiza la articulación de las relaciones precapitalistas y capitalistas en la producción de papa de los municipios de El Carmen de Viboral y La Unión ubicados en la subregión del Oriente antioqueño. Metodología: es un estudio cualitativo de casos...

In this paper we analyze the concept of capital, using as starty point the Cambridge Controversies in the theory of capital. In the first section, we present neoclassical views regarding the concept of capital, mensuration of marginal product of capital and the theories of distribution,...