Subordinated Development, Transnational Capital in the Process of Accumulation of Latin America and Brazil

Subordinated Development: Transnational Capital in the Process of Accumulation of Latin America and Brazil......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
1.1 Introduction......Page 17
1.2 The Commodity as a Process Cell......Page 19
1.3 The Process of Capital Accumulation......Page 29
1.4 Productivity and the Concentration of Capital......Page 35
1.5 Realisation of Value, the Condition for Accumulation, Concentration and Centralisation......Page 42
1.6 The Centralisation of Capital......Page 50
2.1 Introduction......Page 62
2.2 The Question of Space for Accumulation......Page 65
2.3 Globalisation: Accumulation and Concentration......Page 67
2.4 Concentration......Page 71
2.5 Accumulation and Concentration: The Question of Political-Geographic Space......Page 73
2.6 Internationalisation as the Realisation of Value......Page 75
2.7 Realisation, Internationalisation and the Political-Geographic Space......Page 79
2.8 Capital Centralisation......Page 80
2.9 The Centralisation of Space: The Exclusion of the Periphery......Page 86
3.1 Introduction......Page 90
3.2 The Logic of Development through Import Substitution......Page 93
3.3 State Participation......Page 102
3.4 The Participation of Transnational Capital......Page 106
3.5 Transnational Capital as Dynamic Centre......Page 109
3.6 Materialisation of the New Dependency......Page 112
3.7 The Development of Submission to the Movement of Globalised Capital......Page 119
4.1 Introduction......Page 123
4.2 Vargas – The Institutional Apparatus for Development......Page 129
4.3 National Associated Development – The Targets Plan (Plano de Metas)......Page 133
4.4 The Attempt to Recreate a National Policy and the Resumption of Associated Development – 1960–64......Page 139
4.5 The Strengthening of Transnational Capital – The “Economic Miracle”......Page 144
4.6 Brazil as a Power – II PND......Page 151
4.7 Scrapping the National State – The 1980s......Page 157
4.8 The 1990s – Growing Subordination to Globalised Capital......Page 163
4.9 The Lula Government Facing the Power Structure: Conciliation or Confrontation?......Page 178
5.1 Accumulation, Subordination and Disconnection......Page 184
5.2 The Question of Centralisation......Page 193
5.3 The Centralisation of the 1980s and 1990s......Page 196
5.4 Centralisation between Countries......Page 201
5.5 Centralisation and Financial Flows......Page 203
5.6 Centralisation and the Periphery......Page 205
5.7 The forced Disconnection......Page 207
5.8 Final Considerations......Page 212
Bibliography......Page 217
Index......Page 225
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