Integração regional e desenvolvimento no Cone Sul

Resumo

The process of economic integration between Brazil, Argentina,
Uruguay and Paraguay — and so far with Chile and Bolívia —, the
MERCOSUR, Is viewed as part of a movement that is changing the relation
of economy and space. In this sense, first of all, some theoretical questions
about economic development and the territory are pointed out, describing
this relationship at the level of accumulation and regulation and picturing
the fordist mode of development and its Latin-American contemporary,
the national development—commonly identified with import substitution.
Secondly, a historical overview of Latin America's South Cone development
at the fordist age tries to characterize the regimes of accumulation and
modes of regulation prevailing in a national base at each country. Thirdly,
the post-fordist era is considered with the changes in the international
regime, the accumulation process and the regulation structures and their
effects on the economic integration. At least, the hypothesis of the emerging
continental block, the MERCOSUR, be a new milestone in economic
development for the region is dealt with as a possible new kind of spatiality
for capital accumulation.