Teorias sobre as Etapas do Capitalismo: Elementos para uma Síntese

Abstract

The theories of capitalist stages studied in this paper – theories of imperialism, theories of monopoly capitalism, French regulation school, social structures of accumulation approach and neoschumpeterian approach – analyse the different forms of capitalism throughout history. In general, the theoretical problems associated to the theories of capitalist stages are caused by the lack of articulation of the most fundamental characteristics of the mode of production, the multi-secular structures of capitalism, with the structures specific to certain historical periods. To overcome these theoretical problems and search for a deeper understanding of neoliberalism is proposed an analyse the capitalism using multiple time scales.