Agricultural commercialization and capitalist development in Brazil

Renato Sérgio Maluf ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1992, vol. 12, issue 3, 360-372

Abstract: This paper presents an alternative view of agricultural commercialization in thecapitalist development process in Brazil, in contrast with the functionalist approach derivedfrom neoclassical economic theory. Agricultural commercialization is a capital circulationactivity whose form depends on the social organization of agricultural production and thedevelopment of capital concentration, both determined by the modernization process ofthe Brazilian economy. The conclusion remark upon the tendency toward subordination ofcirculation activities, the growing importance of different types of capital (agrarian, commercial,agroindustrial and “entrepreneurial cooperatives”) and of the financial appreciationof capital used in agricultural production and circulation. JEL Classification: Q13.

Keywords: Agriculture; agricultural market; marxism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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