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From Populism to Neoliberalism

The Political Economy of Latin American Import-Substitution Industrialization: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia in Comparative Perspective

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ID3148916
AuthorsNicolás Grinberg (0000-0002-4217-2754, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume49
Issue2
Pages183-206
Publication date2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x211063503
OpenAlexW4210744754
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited26

Traditional views on Latin American political development agree that its distinctive characteristics are in some way related to the region's pattern of import-substitution industrialization. All of them share a key theoretical perspective that limits their understanding of this development: they consider capital accumulation to be structured at the national level. Instead, import-substitution industrialization should be seen as the state-mediated form of recovery by global industrial capital invested in manufacturing of a portion of the ground rent flowing into the region because of its role in the production of surplus value on a global scale. The differences in the political economy of import-substitution industrialization between Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia may be explained in terms of the historical and natural conditions of the specific form taken by capitalism in Latin America. Las opiniones tradicionales sobre el desarrollo político latinoamericano coinciden en que sus peculiaridades están de alguna manera relacionadas con el patrón de industrialización por sustitución de importaciones de la región. Se comparte una perspectiva teórica clave que limita la comprensión de dicho desarrollo: la acumulación de capital se presenta como estructurada a nivel nacional. Sin embargo, la industrialización por sustitución de importaciones debe verse como la forma mediada por el estado que toma la recuperación, por parte del capital industrial global invertido en el sector manufacturero, de una porcion de la renta del suelo que fluye hacia la región debido a su papel en la producción de plusvalía a escala mundial, y va mediada por el Estado. Las diferencias en la economía política de la industrialización por sustitución de importaciones entre Argentina, Brasil, México y Colombia pueden explicarse en términos de las condiciones históricas y naturales en que se realiza la forma específica que toma el capitalismo en América Latina

Capital (architecture) · Capitalism · Economics · Economy · Geography · Humanities · Industrialisation · Latin Americans · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political science · Politics · Populism · Welfare economics · Economic Theory and Policy · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

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