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Peru: the Political Economy of an Intermediate Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

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Any attempt to define the changes in the Peruvian political economy that have taken place since 1968 1 must be made in terms of the relationship between the state and domestic capital on the one hand and foreign capital on the other, and must offer an explanation of the way in which this military- controlled state has tended to replace the former and establish a new relationship with the latter. In particular, the confrontation between the government and foreign capital, and the significance of internal ownership reforms cannot be understood without reference to the development of Peruvian capitalism before 1968.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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References

1 The need to clarify the theme developed in this paper arose from the problems encountered in preparing the MS for The State and Economic Development: Peru since 1968 (Cambridge University Press, 1976). The author would like to thank José Maria Caballero for helpful comments on an earlier draft.Google Scholar

2 Fitzgerald, E., ‘The Public Sector in Latin America’ (Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge, Working Paper No. 18, 1974).Google Scholar

3 Thid issue is more fully discussed in Fitzgerald, E., The State and Economic Developement, Chapter 2.Google Scholar

4 For footnote, see p.55

5 Ibid. p. 13. Taking the ‘ dividing line’ as enterprise of 5 employees or more, we have the following table for 1972: Value Work- Value Work- Corporate Sector Added force Household Sector Added force Export Production 20% 18% Peasant Agricult. 10% 33% Factory Industry 11% 5% Artisans etc. 9% 11% Services & Govt. 35%, 13% Petty Services 15% 20%

6 The functional separation is not hermetic, of course – there is the seasonal employment from coastal towns on the sugar estates, and the practice of ‘ putting out ’ work to artisans by clothing and footwear firms – nonetheless, the functional separation seems to be valid. On this topic, elaborated in the form of an algebraic model which stresses the extremely low marginal product in this sector, see Fitzgerald, E., ‘The Urban Service Sector, Supply of Wagegoods and the Shadow Wagerate’, Oxford Economic Papers (forthcoming, 06, 1976).Google Scholar

7 Espinoza, H., El Poder Económico en la Industria (Villareal University Press, Lima, 1972);Google ScholarMalpica, C., Los Dueúos del Perú (Peisa, Lima, 1974);Google Scholar and Torres, J., La Estructura de la Industria Peruana (Horizonte, Lima, 1975).Google Scholar

8 See the interesting discussion of the previous phase of penetration in Bertram, G. I., ‘Development Problems in an Export Economy: Domestic Capitalists, Foreign Firms and Government in Peru, 1919–1930’ (unpublished D.Phil. dissertation, Oxford, 1974).Google Scholar

9 See the stimulating essay on the history of this class in Ferner, A., ‘The Evolution of the Peruvian Industrial Bourgeoisie’, MS (ESAN, Lima, 1975),Google Scholar and the analysis of its present significance in Wils, F., Industrialists, Industrialisation and the Nation State (Inst. of Social Studies, The Hague, 1975). The scepticism of the former rather than the optimism of the latter coincides with the analysis of this paper.Google Scholar

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11 Villanueva, V., Cien Años del Militarismo en el perú (Baca, Lima, 1971).Google Scholar

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13 The best survey of this period, for all its analytical weaknesses, is Astiz, C., Pressure Groups and Power Politics in Peruvian Politics (Cornell Univ. Press, 1969).Google Scholar

14 The term ‘national’ bourgeoisie seems unhelpful, as it begs the very question we are trying to answer – the resistance of domestic to foreign capital.

15 Such as Bourricaud, F., Power and Society in Contemporary Peru (Faber, London, 1970), though this was written in 1967, and also the official ‘revolutionary’ viewpoint.Google Scholar

16 Pace Quijano, A., Nationalism and Capitalism in Peru (Monthly Review Press, New York, 1971).Google Scholar

17 Pace Malpica, C., El Mito de la Ayuda Exterior (Moncloa, Lima, 1972).Google Scholar

18 Pace Petras, J. and La Porte, R., Peru: Transformación Revolucionaria o Modernización? (Amorrortu, Buenos Aires, 1971).Google Scholar

19 This point is substantiated by the developments since 1968, of course.

20 This is discussed further in Fitzgerald, E., The State and Economic Development: Peru since 1968. Chapter 3.Google Scholar

21 This refers to control over enterprises of five employees or more. The figures for 1968 and 1975 are given in Fitzgerald, Google Scholar, ibid., p. 13, and that for 1950 is an initial estimate, of a tentative nature.

22 Kaplan, M., ‘El Estado Empresario en la Argentina’, Trimestre Económico (01. 1969), pp. 69112.Google Scholar

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26 J. Petras and R. La Porte, op. cit.

27 Kalecki, M., ‘Social and Economic Aspects of Intermediate Regimes’, in his Essays on the Economic Growth of the Socialist and Mixed Economy (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1972).Google Scholar

28 This is the central theme of E. Fitzgerald, The State and Economic Development.

29 E. Fitzgerald, “The Public Sector in Latin America ”.

30 Operated by Southern Peru Copper, the enterprise responsible for the Cuajone project.

31 See Fitzgerald, E., ‘Aspects of Industrialisation in Peru’, and also Vaitsos, C., Inter-country Income Distribution and Transnational Enterprises (Oxford Univ. Press, 1974).Google Scholar

32 Over the 1969–73 period, there was a net outflow of private foreign capital, and the proportion of declared profits in the economy exported fell to 11%, compared to 36% in the 1963–7 period.

33 Instituto Nacional de Planificación, Plan Naciomal de Desarrollo, 1975–78 (Lima, 1975).Google Scholar