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Among the phenomena begot by the processus of the capitalist system internationalization, that of multinational enterprises (ME) assumes a very special relevance. The ME are indeed original economic agents without precedent in the history of the capitalist development. In our days everything happens as if an exchange economy among nations were overlapped by an economy between giant enterprises, the latter havin...
In the most recent past which forms has the capitalist mode of production found in order to exercise, in the Portuguese social formation, its domination over the relations of production in agriculture? Traditionally one has seen how the inevitable connection between the capitalist domination and the development of specifically capitalist relations in agriculture has become steady. But, as a matter of fact, two ...
In Hungary after the statization of the economy and the consolidation of a new power at the end of the forties, the organs of the workers' control appeared immediately after the war would be considered «historically surpassed» and eliminated, though during their ephemeral existence they did essentially to nothing but to put into practice the instructions given by the Communist Party direction. Taking the interp...
Under the theoretical point of view, the Portuguese nineteenth century coincides with the problematic of the transition to capitalism. Already in the middle of the seventeenth century the appropriation, by Portuguese capital, of Brazilian production aimed at the MCP (mode of capitalist production). Nevertheless it was not yet the submission of metropolitan producers but of Negro slaves to the capital. In the be...
In this text, from which only the first part is now published, the author deliberately breaks the partition of a knowledge that has reserved mainly to sociology and political science the exclusive of being able to elaborate theoretical elements shaping such an object as ideologies. The same capacity is recognized to not only academically autonomous subjects like linguistics and semiology but also some zones of ...
In a time of global and planetary strategies by great powers or groups of nations, separated by deep antagonisms, which economic-political space is open to the peripheric countries in the southern Europe? There are, as it is well known, two great processes of economic integration current in Europe: one around the capitalist Common Market countries, the other within the scope of the socialist Comecon count...
The expression «social planning» employed either in current speech or in scientific or technical works refers to a heterogenous and unequal set of subjects and a multiplicity of ideological orientations, not seldom contradictory. As a first approach to the problem of delimitating the contents of «social planning», one tries, in this article, to make an inventory as exhaustive as possible of the meanings include...
In the analysis of any temporal statiscal series one may distinguish different and overlapped waving kinds of behaviour. Thus it may happen that a century-old behaviour (tendency) is overlapped by a cyclical behaviour and even a variable aleatory behaviour (fluctuations). In this article one presents an example of cyclical behaviour in Portuguese emigration, represented by the annual totals of Portuguese perman...
The Law of Enterprises of Social Property, of May 2, 1974, establishes the juridical frame for the new social property sector of Peru's economy and is one of the most important legislative diplomas adopted by the Armed Forces' Revolutionary Government in that country. Frequent official statements have made clear that the future Peruvian economy will be made of four sectors: the social sector (of property)...