New starting point(s): Marx, technological revolutions and changes in the centre-periphery divide

Vol. 40 No. 1 (2020)

Jan-Mar / 2020
Published January 1, 2020
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de Paula, João Antonio, Leonardo Gomes de Deus, Hugo Eduardo da Gama Cerqueira, and Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque. 2020. “New Starting point(s): Marx, Technological Revolutions and Changes in the Centre-Periphery Divide”. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 40 (1):100-116. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-35172020-3023.

New starting point(s): Marx, technological revolutions and changes in the centre-periphery divide

João Antonio de Paula
Department of Economics and Cedeplar at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brasil.
Leonardo Gomes de Deus
Department of Economics and Cedeplar at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brasil
Hugo Eduardo da Gama Cerqueira
Department of Economics and Cedeplar at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brasil.
Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque
Department of Economics and Cedeplar at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte/MG, Brasil.
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 40 No. 1 (2020), Jan-Mar / 2020, Pages 100-116

Abstract

This paper presents the last book that Marx excerpted in his life: La Physique Moderne, written by Hospitalier and published in 1882. This last Notebook (B156, in the IISG's archives) contains hints of other issues that he was researching in his last years, especially societies at the periphery. This combination of issues - an emerging technological revolution and societies at the periphery - may contribute to a better understanding of connections between technological revolutions and the centre-periphery divide. Technological revolutions, sources of new starting points, have been shaping and reshaping the structure of that divide, its nature and structure. 

JEL Classification B14; B31.


Keywords: Technological revolutions centre-periphery metamorphoses of capitalism Marx