| ID | 152085 |
| Title Proper | Rents, knowledge and neo-structuralism |
| Other Title Information | transforming the productive matrix in Ecuador |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Martinez, Estefania ; Fernandez, Nora ; Purcell, Thomas F |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper explores the relationship between ground rent, production and knowledge in Ecuador’s neo-structuralist, state-led project to transform the productive matrix. Based upon insights from the Marxian approach to the critique of political economy, we interrogate how neo-structuralism has conceptualised the relationship between ‘natural resource income’ and ‘knowledge-based’ economic development. The paper argues that a rent-theoretical perspective, which takes seriously the regional unfolding of uneven geographical development in Latin America, can highlight the limits of a national development plan conceived according to the logic of Schumpeterian efficiency. In doing so, the paper identifies the contradictory relationship between natural resource exports, state-led ‘knowledge’-based development and capital accumulation. On this basis the paper offers a historically and empirically informed critical analysis of selective import substitution industrialisation and vanguard science and technology strategies designed to transition Ecuador away from primary resource dependence. |
| `In' analytical Note | Third World Quarterly Vol. 38, No.4; 2017: p.918-938 |
| Journal Source | Third World Quarterly Vol: 38 No 4 |
| Key Words | Marxism ; knowledge ; Rent ; Ecuador ; Uneven Development ; Schumpeter ; Neo-Structuralism |