The Limits of Studies in Comparative Development of East Asia and Latin America
The case of land reform and agrarian policies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11188136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicolás Grinberg (0000-0002-4217-2754, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Guido Starosta (0000-0003-0924-8339, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 761-777 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01436590902867243 |
| OpenAlex | W2072931537 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 10 |
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 agrarian policies should certainly be part of any comparative investigation of the course of capitalist development in each of these two regions, they cannot explain their divergence. The paper contends that the respective scope and timing of agrarian policies has been an expression of the specific contradictions of the early industrialisation process in each region, rather than an autonomous determinant of the course of the latter. Based on insights derived from the Marxian critique of political economy, the paper shows that each region's respective agrarian policies have expressed the differential resolution of the opposition between the rate of profit (industrial capital) and ground-rent (landed property) in the import substituting industrialisation process. In so doing, the paper takes issue with the claim that timely land reforms in Taiwan and Korea have facilitated the subsequent successful turn to an export-oriented industrialisation strategy. An alternative account of the different developmental paths in East Asia and Latin America based on the unfolding of the Marxian ‘law of value’ on a world scale is also provided
Agrarian society · Agrarian system · Agriculture · Capital accumulation · China · Development economics · East Asia · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Human capital · Industrialisation · Latin Americans · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Japanese History and Culture
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |