Centro, periferia e dependência: a crise do fordismo lá e cá

The regulation approach allows marxist development economies, formerly created as an abstract science, to become an applied science. The shift form the abstract level to the applied one is the first point presented. It needs the discussion of some key concepts like regimes of accumulation, modes of regulation, industrial paradigms and stages of development. A second point is the inequality of existing economies and the core-periphery relation. Here a second methodological shift is needed to avoid mechanicism. The regulation approach can only be usefull where a relatively autonomous process of capital accumulation exists, picturing a specific mod« of development, even in a dependent way. That is the case of Brazil and its peripheral fordism.The regulation approach allows marxist development economies, formerly created as an abstract science, to become an applied science. The shift form the abstract level to the applied one is the first point presented. It needs the discussion of some key concepts like regimes of accumulation, modes of regulation, industrial paradigms and stages of development. A second point is the inequality of existing economies and the core-periphery relation. Here a second methodological shift is needed to avoid mechanicism. The regulation approach can only be usefull where a relatively autonomous process of capital accumulation exists, picturing a specific mod« of development, even in a dependent way. That is the case of Brazil and its peripheral fordism