Thoughts on Globalization, Marxism, and the Left

Most researchers interested in the relationship between global markets and public policy focus on advanced industrial democracies. In contrast, we examine competing hypotheses as to globalization's effect on governments by expanding the scope of the discussion to include developing nations. More specifically, we investigate the relationship between international market integration and the evolving burden of taxation on capital, as well as the subsequent response of markets to shifts in tax policy in Latin America since the late 1970s. Consistent with our theoretical expectations, we find that global market forces are more constraining vis-à-vis tax policy in Latin America than in the world's wealthiest nations. Despite these market-based pressures, however, national politics continue to influence tax policy in Latin America in a manner consistent with findings on advanced industrial democracies. As such, developing nations continue to have some room to manipulate policy, though within the context of a more strictly neoliberal context than their counterparts in advanced industrial democracies.

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“…33 To the degree that VATs may have replaced more progressive taxes and declining 27. Dupuy 1998. 28.…”

Section: Globalization Taxation and Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalization, Taxation, and Burden-Shifting in Latin America

Wibbels¹,

Arce²

2003

Int Org

117

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“…Indeed, the emerging new international division of the labor is characterized by capital-technology/ information-intensiye advanced core regions and labor -intensiye industrial peripheries made up by less developed regions. in this new world, economİc disparities increase not only between the dominant and exploited classes, but also between genders and between different ethnic group s within a country or region (DUPUY, 1998). Uneven development causes population movements between the advanced zones and raw -resource zone of production at regional and global scale, depressing wages, weakening the power of workers, unionization, and regulations.…”

Section: Eu's Spatial Development and Itt Policies: Toward Spatial Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial Development and ITT Policies As Cohesetion Means in the EU and Turkey

Marin¹

2006

Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi

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ÖzetZamanla politik, cografik, ekonomik ve sosyal boyutlarıyla giderek daha kompleks bir birlik haline gelen AB, yeni üyelerin kabulüyle birlikte artan yeni bir mekansal sosyoekonomik kısıtlamalar dilemmasıyla yüz yüze kaldı. Gelirin mekansal dagılımındaki farklılıkların, yoksul bölgelerden göreceli daha zengin bölgelere istenmeyen yeni göçlere yol açabilme ve ekonomik aktivitelerin yer seçimlerini etkileyebilme potansiyeli nedeniyle, bölgesel gelir farklılıkları bütünleşme ve uyurnlaşma süreçlerinin başarıya ulaşmasını kısıtlayan bir engelolarak algılandı. Çünkü sonuçta bu faktörler, AB üyesi ülke ve bölgeleri arasında tansiyon ve çelişkiler yaratarak birligin politik varlıgını da tehdit edebilirlerdi. AB, mekansal gelişme ve BiT politikalarının sosyoekonomik bütünleşmesini saglamak ve küresel ekonomide rekabet edebilme kapasitesini etki li bir şekilde artırmak için kentsel ve bölgesel gelişme çabalarının hayati bir parçası olarak görmektedir. Bu makalede, AB ve Türkiye'nin kentsel ve bölgesel kalkınmadaki mekansal gelişme ve BiT politikaları karşılaştırılmaktadır.Anahtar Kelimeler: Avrupa Mekansal Gelişme Perspektifi, BiT, CEMAT, Türkiye, AB, sosyal uyum. AbstractAs the EU has gradually evolved into a politically, geographically, economically and social1y more complex unity, it has increasingly faced with the dilemma of spatial socioeconomic constraints produced by the added new member states. Regional differences in socioeconomic development was perceived as a barrier to further cohesion and integration processes, for spatial variation in income could result in undesirable population movements from the poor to rich regions and relocation of economic activities that in turn might thread to political viability of the EU through political tensions between regions. Hence, the union has viewed the development of spatial and ITT policies as a vital component of its urban and regional development efforts in order to effectively achieve the socioeconomic cohesion and capability to compete in an increasingly global market. Contrary to the EU, Turkey has long neglected to develop a region-based national policy with specific goals and objectives in the area of spatial development and ITT. This paper compares EU and Turkey's spatial development and [TT policies in urban and regional developmenl.

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“…The increased integration of goods and financial markets that has accompanied the process of globalization in recent decades has, in the estimation of a number of Marxian scholars, served to confirm Marx and Engels' prescient analysis of capitalist development in the Communist Manifesto, Capital, and in their works addressing colonial matters, written more than a hundred fifty years ago (see Clarke, 2000;Dupuy, 1998;Foster, 2000;Jellison and Gottheil, 2009;Moseley 1997 and2009;Sutcliffe, 2002;and Warren 1980). Moreover, several scholars contend that the main economic reason given by Marx for the geographical expansion of capitalism into a global system can be attributed to his so-called "law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall" (see Jellison and Gottheil, op.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is the Falling Rate of Profit the Driving Force Behind Globalization?

Ramírez

2012

Contributions to Political Economy

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This paper examines critically the role of the law of the tendency of the falling rate of profit in the geographic expansion (globalization) of competitive capitalism. It contends that Marx did not believe there was an iron-clad connection between the falling rate of profit and globalization; in addition, it argues that Marx believed that the capitalists' insatiable search for colonial markets was driven by their desire to overcome recurrent (and growing) realization problems in the home market arising from deficient aggregate demand on the part of both workers and capitalists.

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Thoughts on Globalization, Marxism, and the Left

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Globalization, Taxation, and Burden-Shifting in Latin America

Globalization, Taxation, and Burden-Shifting in Latin America

Spatial Development and ITT Policies As Cohesetion Means in the EU and Turkey

Is the Falling Rate of Profit the Driving Force Behind Globalization?

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