Brazilian Journal of Political Economy (Dec 2015)

On the Brazilian ground-rent appropriated by landowners

  • NICOLAS GRINBERG

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572015v35n04a07
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35, no. 4
pp. 799 – 824

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ABSTRACTThis paper presents a measurement of the portion of the Brazilian ground-rent appropriated by agrarian landowners during 1955-2005 and assesses its importance relative to other forms of surplus value appropriated in the Brazilian economy. In pursuing this task, the paper also puts forward original estimations of several time-series that are crucial for the study of Brazilian long-term growth and development. Finally, the paper combines the measurements obtained here with those advanced in (Grinberg, 2008, 2013b) to present an approximation to the evolution of the total Brazilian ground-rent during 1955-2005. The appendix presents the sources and methodology used for the estimations.

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