The accumulation of capital and economic growth in Brazil. A long-term perspective (1950-2008)

Juan Pablo Mateo Tomé ()
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Juan Pablo Mateo Tomé: Kingston University London

No 2014-3, Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, Kingston University London

Abstract: This article analyses the development of economic growth in Brazil in terms of capital accumulation, following the Marxist approach. The aim is to identify the relationship between the two processes, looking at the profit rate, which along with investment effort determines productive investment. In turn, this one affects the capital-labour ratio and labour productivity. Both, with the addition of the price ratio, determine the productivity of capital, a key variable in understanding the accumulation process in Brazil. Using the period 1950-2008 allows comparing two phases in the Brazilian economy, the period of substitutive industrialisation and the neoliberal phase, all from the perspective of the relationship between the aforementioned variables.

Keywords: growth; investment; profitability; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E11 E22 E32 N16 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2014-09-12, Revised 2015-03-04
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