Ficha Cuerpo Académico
Esp
Political Economy and Society of Contemporary Capitalism
Discipline Political economy
Academic Group In Formation
Year of registration: 2015
Members
| Name | Lines of research |
| Dr. Abelardo Mariña Flores. | 1, 2, 3. |
| M.A. Jaime González Martínez. | 1, 2, 3. |
| Dr. Lorenzo Fusaro . Leader of GA | 1, 2, 3. |
| M.A. Miguel Ángel Barrios . | 1, 2, 3. |
| Dr. Sergio Cámara Izquierdo. | 1, 2, 3. |
Knowledge Generation and Application Lines
1.- Political economy.
2.- Capital accumulation and crisis.
3.- Labor economy.
Description
1.- It covers the study of capitalist economic relations from the perspective of Marxist labor-value theory. Specifically: the labor process and the capitalist valorization process; value and productivity; money and credit; production of absolute and relative surplus value; technological change; exploitation, wages and reproduction of the labor force; value, competition and prices; competitiveness and international exchange; reproduction of the social relations of capitalist production.
2.- It covers the theoretical and applied study of the macroeconomic dynamics of the capitalist...
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1.- It covers the study of capitalist economic relations from the perspective of Marxist labor-value theory. Specifically: the labor process and the capitalist valorization process; value and productivity; money and credit; production of absolute and relative surplus value; technological change; exploitation, wages and reproduction of the labor force; value, competition and prices; competitiveness and international exchange; reproduction of the social relations of capitalist production.
2.- It covers the theoretical and applied study of the macroeconomic dynamics of the capitalist accumulation process and its contradictions. Specifically: analysis of the material, economic, social and institutional bases of the structural conditions of capital valorization and its immanent tendencies on the basis of the tendential law of the decrease of the general rate of profit and financialization. Analysis of the secular tendencies of capital accumulation; Analysis of the structural crises of profitability and finance; Analysis of the fluctuations and cyclical crises of the economy; Analysis of the valorization process at the international level: imperialism, hegemony, dependence, center-periphery relation, unequal development, world capitalist system.
3.- It covers the theoretical and applied study of: Marxist theory of the Industrial Reserve Army at the level of international competition; working conditions in contemporary capitalism; labor remunerations and the reproduction of the labor force; intra-national and international migratory movements.
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