The Manufacturing Sector in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico: Transformations and Challenges in the Industrial Core of Latin America

213 Pages·2019·3.65 MB·English

by  Juan Eduardo Santarcángelo

PALGRAVE STUDIES
IN LATIN AMERICAN
HETERODOX
ECONOMICS
THE
MANUFACTURING
SECTOR IN
ARGENTINA,
BRAZIL,
AND MEXICO
Transformations and Challenges in
the Industrial Core of Latin America
EDITED BY JUAN EDUARDO SANTARCÁNGELO
Palgrave Studies in Latin American
Heterodox Economics
Series Editor
Juan Eduardo Santarcángelo
National Research Council of Science
and Technology (CONICET)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ)
Bernal, Argentina
The aim of the series is to analyze the economic, social, and political
evolution of countries in Latin America. The authors in the series are
serious heterodox economics scholars who want to shine light on Latin
America’s economic profile. Each book in the series takes on a single topic
(crisis, growth, income distribution, the manufacturing sector, etc.),
either from the point of view of a single country or a group of them. This
analysis then in turn adds to our understanding of Latin America’s
regional economic character and development challenges and capabili-
ties. In this way, this series makes an unusual contribution to economics
by studying a region as a whole without losing sight of the particularities
of each country as a part.
More information about this series at
http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14614
Juan Eduardo Santarcángelo
Editor
The Manufacturing
Sector in Argentina,
Brazil, and Mexico
Transformations and Challenges in
the Industrial Core of Latin America
Editor
Juan Eduardo Santarcángelo
National Research Council of Science
and Technology (CONICET)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ)
Bernal, Argentina
Palgrave Studies in Latin American Heterodox Economics
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Acknowledgments
I am pleased to publish the second book of the Series Palgrave Studies in
Latin American Heterodox Economics with Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave
Macmillan has long served as an important source for heterodox eco-
nomic analysis and has provided throughout the years rigorous and deep
analysis on Latin American problems and more importantly on the pos-
sible solutions and ways to be applied by the countries of the region.
In particular I want to thank Elizabeth Graber, in-house editorial
director of the project, for his constant support and assistance for the
realization of the project, Sujitha Shiney and especially  Ganesh
Ekambaram for their copyediting. I also want to thank the Consejo
Nacional de Investigaciones Cientítficas y Técnicas (CONICET) and the
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ) for giving me the economic
and institutional support to carry out this project.
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Contents
Introduction 1
Juan Eduardo Santarcángelo
The Manufacturing Sector in Argentina at the Beginning of the
Twenty-First Century 7
Juan Eduardo Santarcángelo
Structural Change and the Manufacturing Sector in the
Brazilian Economy: 2000–2014 61
Carlos Aguiar de Medeiros, Fabio Neves Peracio Freitas, and Patieene
Alves Passoni
The Manufacturing Sector in Mexico During the Neoliberal
Period 97
Abelardo Mariña Flores and Sergio Cámara Izquierdo
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x Contents
The Evolution and Challenges of Latin American Industrial
Development in the Twenty-First Century: An Analysis from
Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico 149
Juan Eduardo Santarcángelo and Juan Manuel Padín
Index 193
Notes on Contributors
Sergio Cámara Izquierdo is Professor of Political Economy at the Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico.
Fabio Neves Peracio Freitas is a professor at the Economics Institute of the
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.
Abelardo Mariña Flores is Professor of Political Economy at the Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico.
Carlos Aguiar de Medeiros is a professor at the Economics Institute of the
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.
Juan Manuel Padín is a researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes in
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Patieene Alves Passoni is a PhD graduate student at the Economics Institute
of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.
Juan Eduardo Santarcángelo is a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de
Investigaciones Cientítficas y Técnicas (CONICET) and a professor at the
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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