The geoeconomics of the empire and the mutations of the capital: the two cycles of US economic expansion in the late twentieth century

Vol. 40 No. 1 (2020)

Jan-Mar / 2020
Published January 1, 2020
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Tavares, Maria da Conceição, and Maurício Metri. 2020. “The Geoeconomics of the Empire and the Mutations of the Capital: The Two Cycles of US Economic Expansion in the Late Twentieth Century”. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 40 (1):3-21. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572020-3043.
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The geoeconomics of the empire and the mutations of the capital: the two cycles of US economic expansion in the late twentieth century

Maria da Conceição Tavares
Professora emérita da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, do Instituto de Economia, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil. Professora titular aposentada do IE-Unicamp.
Maurício Metri
Professor associado de Economia Política Internacional do Instituto de Relações Internacionais e Defesa da UFRJ - IRI/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil.
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 40 No. 1 (2020), Jan-Mar / 2020, Pages 3-21

Abstract

This paper was written in 2003-04 and aims to investigate the two cycles of US economic expansion in the late of the 20th Century and the 2001 financial crisis. For this purpose, it starts an examination of the mutations of the capital since the 1970s. In the end, it analyzes the international context and the changes in the US hegemony nature at the beginnings of the 21st Century. 

JEL Classification: G01; E44; F30; F5.


Keywords: Globalization economic cycle United States financial crisis