Comparative capitalisms and Latin American neodevelopmentalism

A critical political economy view

Bibliographic Data

ID5087738
AuthorsMatthias Ebenau (Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume38
Issue1
Pages102-114
Publication date2014-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCapital & Class (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0309816813512591
OpenAlexW2017122212
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited14

This article engages critically with an emerging Brazilian research programme, 'varieties of capitalism and development in Latin America', a perspective which seeks to ascertain the institutional chances of, and limits to, the implementation of state-led 'national development strategies'. Adopting a critical political economy viewpoint, the text discusses the deficiencies inherent in this perspective and its neoinstitutionalist and neodevelopmentalist fundamentals. In particular, it questions the vision of the world economy as an arena of free competition and that of the nation-state as a 'collective actor', both of which are politically and analytically problematic. These criticisms are substantiated through evidence drawn from a case analysis of the recent trajectory of the Argentinian neodevelopmentalist project

Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Washington Consensus · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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