Corea del Sur, 1980-2018. Tendencias de algunos coeficientes económicos básicos

Guhyeon Jeong and Seongjin Jeong
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Guhyeon Jeong: National University of Gyeongsang
Seongjin Jeong: National University of Gyeongsang

El Trimestre Económico, 2022, vol. 89 (2), issue 354, 533-566

Abstract: This article explores the dynamics and contradictions of capital accumulation in South Korea from 1980 to 2018 by analyzing the rates of surplus-value and profit, and criticizes two theses of financialization and income-led growth. The rate of surplus-value soared after 2000 because the real wage growth was contained by the neoliberal onslaught against workers. The profit rate consistently declined after 1987, paving the way for the 1997 crisis and its main driver was the rising organic composition of capital. After the 1997 crisis, the profit rate rebounded for six years thanks to the intensified exploitation of workers. From 2002 until the 2008 global financial crisis, the rate of profit dropped again. However, contrary to the financialization thesis, there has been no substantial transfer of surplus-value from the real sector to the financial sector. Our results also show that the accumulation rate determined income distribution, not vice versa, which contradicts the income-led growth strategy, now popular among the Korean progressives. Marxian macro-dynamics are operating as usual in Korea.

Keywords: Rate of surplus-value; rate of profit; economic crisis; financialization; income-led growth; South Korea. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B51 E11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.20430/ete.v89i354.1506

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