Emerging Countries: The Marxism-Institutionalism Controversy

The basic premise of this paper is that the problem in the agency-social structure or subject-social structure relationship is crucial for understanding the present stage of take-off in the new phase of development or capitalism of knowledge following the recent global crisis of 2007-2009. This expr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Ordóñez, Sergio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Problemas del Desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/32139
Acceso en línea:https://www.probdes.iiec.unam.mx/index.php/pde/article/view/32139
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Latin America
Asia
capitalism of knowledge
differentiation between developing countries
institutionalism
Gramscian Marxism
América Latina
capitalismo del conocimiento
diferenciación países en desarrollo
institucionalismo
marxismo gramsciano
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Sumario:The basic premise of this paper is that the problem in the agency-social structure or subject-social structure relationship is crucial for understanding the present stage of take-off in the new phase of development or capitalism of knowledge following the recent global crisis of 2007-2009. This expresses the contradiction between neoliberalism, as a political-ideological projection, and a new technological-productive base, as well as the question of differentiation between developed “successful” countries and those that are “backward”. Institutionalism and Gramsci’s Marxism have offered solutions to the agency-structure dichotomy through very different theoretical approaches, the first seeking to explain the issue of differentiation between countries. Aspects of an alternative explanation are provided here through the Gramscian solution