Uneven and combined development as a methodological tool: a dynamic approach after a dialogue between Kondratiev and Trotsky

Eduardo Albuquerque

No 610, Textos para Discussão Cedeplar-UFMG from Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abstract: This paper suggests that Trotsky's elaboration on uneven and combined development can be a methodological tool to understand contemporary capitalism. A dialogue with Kondratiev is a starting point, as each new technological revolution creates a new level of unevenness. Technological revolutions also transform channels through which combination takes place. As both unevenness and combination change over time, it is possible to have a dynamic approach to the process of uneven and combined development. This dynamic approach is a methodology to investigate how new amalgams between modern and archaic forms shape varieties of capitalism at the periphery and transform the global dynamic of capitalism.

Keywords: technological revolutions; center-periphery divide; varieties of capitalism; expansion of global capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2019-09
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