Extractivism or specificity of capital accumulation? A critique on the extractivist approach regarding the case of Argentina

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ID3833037
AuthorsNicolás Pérez Trento (0000-0002-3520-3428, National University of Quilmes, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume46
Issue2
Pages211-233
Publication date2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCapital & Class (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/03098168211017432
OpenAlexW3168401281
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

The recent economic and political transformations in many Latin American countries have been increasingly analysed under the (neo-)extractivism approach. Specifically, the debate surrounding the contradictions and limitations of this development model, as well as its consequences, gained traction among scholars. In this article, we intend to put forth a critical analysis of this approach with the goal of giving an account of its explanatory power, focusing on Argentina. In order to do this, we summarize some of the more noteworthy conceptual features of (neo-)extractivism, as well as the main arguments to include Argentina as a case. Then, after presenting some immediate conceptual limitations linked to this theoretical perspective, we introduce an alternative approach in regard to the specific way in which capital accumulation takes place in Argentina, based on the Critique of Political Economy put forward by Marx in Capital, and taking the global unity of capital accumulation as a starting point. This allows us to critically engage, in the last section, with the main claims of extractivism

Capital accumulation · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Explanatory power · Latin Americans · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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