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Challenging mainstream nation-centred theories of economic development, Nicolás Grinberg examines the specificities of capitalist development in Brazil and South Korea by starting from their modes of participation in the international division of labour and hence in the production of surplus value on a global scale. Contrary to those theories, he does not consider these as resulting simply from the economic policies of nation states and their associated political institutions; nor from local class-struggle dynamics or geopolitical developments. Rather, drawing on key insights from Marx’s critique of political economy, his analysis begins by recognising that the process of capitalist development is global in terms of its economic dynamics and historical trends, and national only in its political and institutional forms of realisation. State-mediated patterns of economic development and institutional change in Brazil and Korea, as well as the intra- and inter-state political processes through which these have come about, are then considered mediations in the conformation and reproduction of the nationally differentiated, uneven process of capital’s valorisation on a global scale.

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Nicolás Grinberg, PhD. (2011), London School of Economics and Political Science, is independent researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council and associate professor in Comparative Economic Development at the Interdisciplinary School of Advanced Social Studies of the National University of San Martin. He works on the political economy of capitalist development from a comparative-historical perspective. His work has been published in New Political Economy, the Journal of Contemporary Asia, Latin American Perspectives and Third World Quarterly, amongst others.

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