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This paper investigates the specificity of a modern capitalist economy as a complex system. This investigation is based on a review of the literature to understand complexity in the physical and biological worlds, to learn the bases of... more
This paper investigates the specificity of a modern capitalist economy as a complex system. This investigation is based on a review of the literature to understand complexity in the physical and biological worlds, to learn the bases of complexity and self-organization, and to locate the tools used to identify and measure them. An economy has different layers and levels of organization, based upon human beings, agents that think, have intentions and change all the time. This paper presents a new model to replicate the workings of a capitalist economy that endogenizes the introduction of innovations and institutional change, and it runs a simulation. The analysis of those results indicate that a modern capitalist economy is a complex system, and that this complex system changes its level of self-organization over time. This finding highlights the peculiarity of a capitalist economy vis-a-vis other complex systems.
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O texto descreve o processo de elaboracao da “lei de tendencia de queda da taxa de lucro” a partir dos manuscritos ineditos de Marx, publicados entre 1975 e 2012. Sao apresentados os “quatro esbocos” de O capital, respectivamente, os... more
O texto descreve o processo de elaboracao da “lei de tendencia de queda da taxa de lucro” a partir dos manuscritos ineditos de Marx, publicados entre 1975 e 2012. Sao apresentados os “quatro esbocos” de O capital, respectivamente, os Grundrisse, o Manuscrito de 1861-3, o Manuscrito de 1864-5 e o conjunto de textos escritos ate o fim da vida por Marx. O texto aborda, finalmente, as discussoes contemporâneas sobre esses escritos.
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Marx's Notebooks prepared in 1868 and 1869 (excerpts from The Economist and The Money Market Review) are an investigation on the crisis of 1866. Beyond a broad study of that crisis, they are an investigation of an emerging... more
Marx's Notebooks prepared in 1868 and 1869 (excerpts from The Economist and The Money Market Review) are an investigation on the crisis of 1866. Beyond a broad study of that crisis, they are an investigation of an emerging transformation of capitalism. They focus on leading industrial sectors (railways), financial innovations (such as limited liability firms and new types of shares and titles), and follow political measures undertaken in response to that crisis - dynamic new features of a system in its drive for survival. Those Notebooks might be material for a deep revision of his unfinished manuscripts for Volume III.
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Research Interests: Economics, Complex Systems Science, Marxism, Marxist Economics, Complexity Theory, and 15 moreComplex Systems, Complexity, Capitalism, Marxist theory, Complex Networks, Applied Economics, Marxist political economy, Complex Adaptive Systems, Karl Marx, Global Capitalism, Falling Rates of Profit, Marxist Theory, Marxist Political Economy, Marxist EconomiCs, and Decline in Rate of Profit
Research Interests: Economics, Complex Systems Science, Marxism, Marxist Economics, Complexity Theory, and 15 moreComplex Systems, Complexity, Capitalism, Marxist theory, Complex Networks, Applied Economics, Marxist political economy, Complex Adaptive Systems, Karl Marx, Global Capitalism, Falling Rates of Profit, Marxist Theory, Marxist Political Economy, Marxist EconomiCs, and Decline in Rate of Profit
Resumo Com a publicação de textos inéditos de Marx, tem sido possível avaliar com maior precisão seu itinerário intelectual. O presente artigo investiga os momentos que conduziram o autor a um plano consistente e logicamente articulado... more
Resumo Com a publicação de textos inéditos de Marx, tem sido possível avaliar com maior precisão seu itinerário intelectual. O presente artigo investiga os momentos que conduziram o autor a um plano consistente e logicamente articulado para O Capital, em meio à redação de uma série de planos e manuscritos. Utilizam-se para tanto os Grundrisse, o Manuscrito de 1861-1863 e manuscritos redigidos nos anos seguintes, recentemente publicados. Explora-se assim uma perspectiva sobre os planos de redação da obra econômica de Marx, diferente daquela formulada por Roman Rosdolsky.
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Abstract This paper presents Notebook B113, one of Marx's unpublished manuscripts, and suggests its importance for highlighting the monetary and financial issues which Marx was investigating after 1867. The contents of this notebook... more
Abstract This paper presents Notebook B113, one of Marx's unpublished manuscripts, and suggests its importance for highlighting the monetary and financial issues which Marx was investigating after 1867. The contents of this notebook reveal a systematic effort to investigate new features of financial markets and institutions which were spreading throughout Europe during the 1860's, and which were put in sharp evidence by the events that surrounded the Overend, Gurney crisis in England, in 1866. Besides offering valuable ...
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This paper presents Notebook B113, one of Marx's unpublished manuscripts, and suggests its importance for highlighting the monetary and financial issues which Marx was investigating after 1867. A combination of deciphering an index... more
This paper presents Notebook B113, one of Marx's unpublished manuscripts, and suggests its importance for highlighting the monetary and financial issues which Marx was investigating after 1867. A combination of deciphering an index prepared by Marx and reading the 1868 ...
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Research Interests: Complex Analysis, Economics, Complex Systems Science, Marxism, Complexity Theory, and 15 moreEconomic Theory, Complex Systems, Complexity, Complex Networks, Historical Materialism, Applied Economics, Complex Adaptive Systems, Karl Marx, Marxismo, Falling Rates of Profit, Fractal, Marxian Political Economy, Karl Marx Theory of the Mode of Production, Historical Materialism In International Political Economy, and Decline in Rate of Profit
This paper presents the last book that Marx excerpted in his life: La Physique Moderne, written by Hospitalier and published in 1882. This last Notebook (B156, in the IISG’s archives) contains hints of other issues that he was researching... more
This paper presents the last book that Marx excerpted in his life: La Physique Moderne, written by Hospitalier and published in 1882. This last Notebook (B156, in the IISG’s archives) contains hints of other issues that he was researching in his last years, especially societies at the periphery. This combination of issues - an emerging technological revolution and societies at the periphery - may contribute to a better understanding of connections between technological revolutions and the centre-periphery divide. Technological revolutions, sources of new starting points, have been shaping and reshaping the structure of that divide, its nature and structure.
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Com a publicação de textos inéditos de Marx, tem sido possível avaliar com maior precisão seu itinerário intelectual. O presente artigo investiga os momentos que conduziram o autor a um plano consistente e logicamente articulado para O... more
Com a publicação de textos inéditos de Marx, tem sido possível avaliar com maior precisão seu itinerário intelectual. O presente artigo investiga os momentos que conduziram o autor a um plano consistente e logicamente articulado para O Capital, em meio à redação de uma série de planos e manuscritos. Utilizam-se para tanto os Grundrisse, o Manuscrito de 1861-1863 e manuscritos redigidos nos anos seguintes, recentemente publicados. Explora-se assim uma perspectiva sobre os planos de redação da obra econômica de Marx, diferente daquela formulada por Roman Rosdolsky.
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This paper presents the last book that Marx excerpted in his life: La Physique Moderne, written by Hospitalier and published in 1882. This last Notebook (B156, in the IISG’s archives) contains hints of other issues that he was researching... more
This paper presents the last book that Marx excerpted in his life: La Physique Moderne, written by Hospitalier and published in 1882. This last Notebook (B156, in the IISG’s archives) contains hints of other issues that he was researching in his last years, es-pecially societies at the periphery. This combination of issues – an emerging technological revolution and societies at the periphery – may contribute to a better understanding of con-nections between technological revolutions and the centre-periphery divide. Technological revolutions, sources of new starting points, have been shaping and reshaping the structure of that divide, its nature and structure.
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The paper addresses the influence of Karl Marx’s empirical researches about the crises of 1857 and 1866 on his writing process of Capital and, on the other hand, the impact of this process on Marx’s own analysis of economic crises.
Resumo: O artigo reconstitui as propostas de desenvolvimento no Brasil do século XX e seus efeitos sobre as políticas educacionais. Se no período nacional-desenvolvimentista houve uma expansão da oferta de escolas e do acesso, a partir de... more
Resumo: O artigo reconstitui as propostas de desenvolvimento no Brasil do século XX e seus efeitos sobre as políticas educacionais. Se no período nacional-desenvolvimentista houve uma expansão da oferta de escolas e do acesso, a partir de 1990 ocorreu um retrocesso. Com o processo de municipalização do ensino fundamental, ocorreu o fechamento paulatino de escolas das redes estaduais de ensino. Discutem-se os projetos de país e suas implicações para a educação, para avaliar alternativas contemporâneas. Palavras-chave: Desenvolvimento econômico; ideologia; políticas educacionais. " You mon't see any country " : educational policies and economic development prospects in Brasil Abstract: The paper discusses the main ideas for the economic development in Brazil during the 20th century and their effects on educational policies. Through the developmentalism years the supply of public schools increased, while a decline is observable since the 1990's. The paper demonstrates how the municipalization of public schools has endangered the universalization of access to education and its quality. This process begun during the Dictatorship of 1964 and has not changed after democratization.
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This article proposes a network model to replicate the behaviour of the profit rate in the long run. Specifically, it accounts for the results of an empirical investigation of the profit rate in the US, which show that it has fractal... more
This article proposes a network model to replicate the behaviour of the profit rate in the long run. Specifically, it accounts for the results of an empirical investigation of the profit rate in the US, which show that it has fractal properties and its complexity changes over time. The starting point of the model is Marx’s insights on the interplay between the tendency of the rate to fall and its countertendencies. It combines these insights with the persistent generation of new commodities – inventions – and a specific set of new branches of production that triggers technological revolutions. A simulation running this network model successfully replicates historical features of the system.
Research Interests: Complex Systems Science, Marxism, Marxist Economics, Complexity Theory, Complex Systems, and 19 moreComplexity, Capitalism, Marxist theory, Modeling and Simulation, Complex Networks, Marxist political economy, Complex Adaptive Systems, Karl Marx, Structural change and economic dynamics, Social Complexity, Simulation, Global Capitalism, Profitability, Falling Rates of Profit, Structural Change, Tendential Fall of Profit Rate, Decline in Rate of Profit, Profit Rate, and rate of profit
There are new reasons for revisiting Marx’s elaboration on the rate of profit because contemporary debates provide findings from the MEGA Project, long-term data on the rate of profit, and tools for dealing with complexity and... more
There are new reasons for revisiting Marx’s elaboration on the rate of profit because contemporary debates provide findings from the MEGA Project, long-term data on the rate of profit, and tools for dealing with complexity and non-equilibrium systems. This article proposes that the interplay between the tendency and the countertendencies of the rate of profit to fall can be translated into a simple system of equations, one based on each chapter of Section Three of Capital—as if Marx sought to mathematically formalise his insights. This article reviews previous debates, presents data and runs a simulation model, showing that the rate of profit behaves as fractals.
Research Interests: Complex Analysis, Complex Systems Science, Marxism, Marxist Economics, Complexity Theory, and 27 morePost-Marxism, Complex Systems, Complexity, Philosophy of Karl Marx, Marxist theory, Complex Networks, Historical Materialism, Marxism (Political Science), Chaos/Complexity Theory, Marxist political economy, Complex Adaptive Systems, Karl Marx, Social Complexity, Neo-Marxism, Marxismo, Falling Rates of Profit, Classical Marxism (Marx-Engels collected works), Marxian Political Economy, Karl Marx Theory of the Mode of Production, Materialism And Historical Materialism, Tendential Fall of Profit Rate, Historical Materialism In International Political Economy, Decline in Rate of Profit, Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, rate of profit, MEGA2, and Metamorphoses of Capitalism
This paper suggests that Marx’s Notebooks B108, B109 and B113 constitute, in themselves, a systematic investigation on the crisis of 1866. Prepared between 1868 and 1869, one may also read these Notebooks as notes that complete an... more
This paper suggests that Marx’s Notebooks B108, B109 and B113 constitute, in themselves, a systematic investigation on the crisis of 1866. Prepared between 1868 and 1869, one may also read these Notebooks as notes that complete an analysis of a sequence of capitalist crises – 1847, 1857, and 1866.
This paper also suggests that Marx recurrently stressed the changing nature of capitalist crises – crises have different causes and unfold in different ways. He was dealing with a capitalist system undergoing fast and profound changes, as he noted in various places. This is why, since his very first comments on the crisis of 1866, Marx highlighted what was new: the crisis now assumed “[…] a predominantly financial character” (MEGA² II/5, p. 540).
This paper also suggests that Marx recurrently stressed the changing nature of capitalist crises – crises have different causes and unfold in different ways. He was dealing with a capitalist system undergoing fast and profound changes, as he noted in various places. This is why, since his very first comments on the crisis of 1866, Marx highlighted what was new: the crisis now assumed “[…] a predominantly financial character” (MEGA² II/5, p. 540).
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Resumo: O artigo reconstitui as propostas de desenvolvimento no Brasil do século XX e seus efeitos sobre as políticas educacionais. Se no período nacional-desenvolvimentista houve uma expansão da oferta de escolas e do acesso, a partir de... more
Resumo: O artigo reconstitui as propostas de desenvolvimento no Brasil do século XX e seus efeitos sobre as políticas educacionais. Se no período nacional-desenvolvimentista houve uma expansão da oferta de escolas e do acesso, a partir de 1990 ocorreu um retrocesso. Com o processo de municipalização do ensino fundamental, ocorreu o fechamento paulatino de escolas das redes estaduais de ensino. Discutem-se os projetos de país e suas implicações para a educação, para avaliar alternativas contemporâneas. Palavras-chave: Desenvolvimento econômico; ideologia; políticas educacionais. " You mon't see any country " : educational policies and economic development prospects in Brasil Abstract: The paper discusses the main ideas for the economic development in Brazil during the 20th century and their effects on educational policies. Through the developmentalism years the supply of public schools increased, while a decline is observable since the 1990's. The paper demonstrates how the municipalization of public schools has endangered the universalization of access to education and its quality. This process begun during the Dictatorship of 1964 and has not changed after democratization.
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Com a publicação de textos inéditos de Marx, tem sido possível avaliar com maior precisão seu itinerário intelectual. O presente artigo investiga os momentos que conduziram o autor a um plano consistente e logicamente articulado para O... more
Com a publicação de textos inéditos de Marx, tem sido possível avaliar com maior precisão seu itinerário intelectual. O presente artigo investiga os momentos que conduziram o autor a um plano consistente e logicamente articulado para O Capital, em meio à redação de uma série de planos e manuscritos. Utilizam-se para tanto os Grundrisse, o Manuscrito de 1861-1863 e manuscritos redigidos nos anos seguintes, recentemente publicados. Explora-se assim uma perspectiva sobre os planos de redação da obra econômica de Marx, diferente daquela formulada por Roman Rosdolsky.
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O artigo discute a teoria da dependência como momento original do pensamento econômico nacional. Para tanto, são analisados três autores, Celso Furtado, Ruy Mauro Marini e Fernando Henrique Cardoso, respectivamente, representantes da... more
O artigo discute a teoria da dependência como momento original do pensamento econômico nacional. Para tanto, são analisados três autores, Celso Furtado, Ruy Mauro Marini e Fernando Henrique Cardoso, respectivamente, representantes da formação, consolidação e decadência da teoria, que partiu do otimismo do desenvolvimentismo na
década de 1930 e, depois de 1970, tornou-se uma defesa da
inserção subordinada do Brasil no mercado global. A originalidade da teoria da dependência é situada no período de ascensão dos movimentos sociais e dos projetos nacionais
da década de 1920, notadamente o movimento operário e
o Modernismo.
década de 1930 e, depois de 1970, tornou-se uma defesa da
inserção subordinada do Brasil no mercado global. A originalidade da teoria da dependência é situada no período de ascensão dos movimentos sociais e dos projetos nacionais
da década de 1920, notadamente o movimento operário e
o Modernismo.