Tricontinental Political Economy
Political economy from the three continents that produce the world's wealth and retain the least of it. Tools for understanding why the chains persist, and how to break them.
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Desarrollo es producir vida (opens the original)
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Por Emiliano LópezLa teoría económica hegemónica, tanto en su versión neoclásica como en la desarrollista, construyó su objeto de estudio a partir de la forma mercancía. Tal como planteaba oportunamente Marx al comenzar El Capital, lo más simple, por tanto, el menor nivel de determinaciones en la sociedad capitalista, lo lleva la categoría de mercancía. Así aparece ante nuestros ojos esta forma de organización de la vida social como un “gran cúmulo de mercancías”, un intercambio de cosas produci
Development Is the Production of Life (opens the original)
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by Emiliano LópezHegemonic economic theory, in both its neoclassical and developmentalist versions, built its object of study on the commodity form. As Marx aptly put it at the opening of Capital, the simplest thing, the lowest level of determination in capitalist society, is carried by the category of the commodity. This is how this form of organising social life appears before our eyes: as an “immense accumulation of commodities,” an exchange of things produced in order to be sold. In this sen
National-Imperialism: Trump and the Return of an Older Playbook (opens the original)
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By Juliane FurnoThe previous note in this series, “Who Can Still Steer?”, argued that the erosion of state mediating capacity across the periphery is not merely a domestic story: it is driven from outside, by an imperialist offensive that deepens the bonds of dependency precisely as the hegemonic project enters its own decline. That offensive is the subject Juliane Furno takes up here. Where our note measured the capacity a state retains to act on its position, this piece reconstructs the extern
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