Publications

My main research interests are:

Political Economy, value theory, and input-output analysis
Growth and distribution
Intellectual monopoly, digital assets, and the knowledge economy
Computational and quantitative methods applied to contemporaneous issues
Applied econometrics, modelling, and programming in R and Python

2025

Rotta, T. N. (2025) Value Capture and Value Production in the World Economy: A Marxian Analysis of Global Value Chains, 2000-2014. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 57 (2-3), pp.184-202 [open access] [PDF] [online appendix]

Rotta, T. N. (2025) Panel Data of Value-Added Capture at the Country, Industry, and Country-Industry Levels of Aggregation (2000-2014) [dataset]. Zenodo repository.

Rotta, T. N. (2025) Value Capture and Value Production in the Global Economy. Short piece for the website A Terra É Redonda, in Portuguese. English version available here.

Rotta, T. N. (2025) Panel Data of Global Exploitation Rates (1990-2021): CSV and Parquet Files [dataset]. Zenodo repository.

2024

Rotta, T. N. and Kumar, R. (2024) Was Marx Right? Development and Exploitation in 43 Countries, 2000-2014. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 69, pp.213-223 [open access] [PDF]

Rotta, T. N. (2024) Panel Dataset of Marxist Variables at the Global Level (2000-2014)[dataset]. Zenodo repository.

Rotta, T. N. (2024) Intellectual Monopoly and Income Inequality in the United States, 1948-2021: A Long Run Analysis. Review of Radical Political Economics 57(4), pp.826-849 [open access] [PDF]

Rotta, T. N. (2024) Time Series Dataset for the United States (1947-2021): Intellectual Monopoly and Income Inequality [dataset]. Zenodo repository.

Rotta, T. N. (2024) Monopolies of Knowledge Are Making the Rich Richer. Short piece for the website Critical Takes on Corporate Power.

2022

Rotta, T. N. and Paraná, E. (2022) Bitcoin as a Digital Commodity. New Political Economy 27(6), pp. 1046-1061 [open access]. [PDF]

Rotta, T. N. (2022) Information Rents, Economic Growth, and Inequality: An Empirical Study of the United States. Cambridge Journal of Economics 46(2), pp.341-370. [slides] [full appendix] [free-access link]

Rotta, T. N. (2022) Time Series Dataset for the United States (1947-2011): Information Rents, Economic Growth, and Inequality [dataset]. Zenodo repository.

2021

Rotta, T. N. (2021) Effective Demand and Prices of Production: An Evolutionary Approach. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 58, pp.90-105.

2020

Rotta, T. N. (2020) Effective Demand and Prices of Production: An Evolutionary Approach. MPRA Working Paper n.97910. [PDF]

2019

Vidal, M.; Smith, T.; Rotta, T. N.; and Prew, P. (2019) The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. Oxford University Press. [Table of Contents]

Rotta, T. N. and Teixeira, R. (2019) The Commodification of Knowledge and Information. In: Vidal, Smith, Rotta and Prew (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. New York: Oxford University Press, pp.379–399. [PDF]

Prew, P.; Rotta, T. N.; Smith, T.; and Vidal, M. (2019) The Enduring Relevance of Karl Marx. In: Vidal, Smith, Rotta and Prew (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. New York: Oxford University Press, pp.3–34.

2018

Rotta, T. N. (2018) Unproductive Accumulation in the United States: A New Analytical Framework. Cambridge Journal of Economics 42(5), pp.1367–1392. [Appendix] and [Data Files]

Rotta, T. N. and Teixeira, R. (2018) The Commodification of Knowledge and Information. GPERC Working Paper n.60. [PDF]

2017

Rotta, T. N. (2017) Effective Demand and Say’s Law in Marxist Theory: An Evolutionary Perspective. GPERC Working Paper n.38. [PDF]

Book flap for the Brazilian edition of ‘And the Weak Suffer What They Must?’ by Yanis Varoufakis. Publisher: Autonomia Literária (in Portuguese). [link]

2016

Rotta, T. N. and Teixeira, R. (2016) The Autonomisation of Abstract Wealth: New Insights on the Labour Theory of Value. Cambridge Journal of Economics 40(4), pp.1185-1201.

Rotta, T. N. (2016) You Pay to Work. And Why it Matters. Democracy at Work blog.

2015

Rotta, T. N. (2015) Unproductive Accumulation in the United States: A New Analytical Framework. GPERC Working Paper n.08. [PDF] (an earlier version appeared as PERI Working Paper n.384. [Abstract] and [PDF])

Rotta, T. N. (2015) Productive Stagnation and Unproductive Accumulation: An Econometric Analysis of the United States. GPERC Working Paper n.09. [PDF] (an earlier version appeared as PERI Working Paper n.399. [Abstract] and [PDF])

2014

Rotta, T. N. (2014) Productive Stagnation and Unproductive Accumulation in the United States, 1947-2011. PhD Dissertation. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. [PDF]

2013

Rotta, T. N. and Teixeira, R. (2013) Modern Rent-Bearing Capital: New Enclosures, Knowledge-Rent and the Financialization of Monopoly Rights. Jokyo, July 2013 (in Japanese).

Rotta, T. N. (2013) Brazil 2013: Mass Demonstrations, the World Cup, and 500 Years of Oppression. Counterpunch, 25 June 2013.

In Spanish: Rebelión, 28 June 2013. [Link]

In Korean: Redian, 27 June 2013. [Link]

2012

Teixeira, R. and Rotta, T. N. (2012) Valueless Knowledge-Commodities and Financialization: Productive and Financial Dimensions of Capital Autonomization. Review of Radical Political Economics 44(4), pp.448-467. [PDF]

2009

Rotta, T. N. and Paulani, L. (2009) Marx’s Monetary Theory: Limits and Current Validity. Revista Economia, Vol 10, n°3, pp.609-633 (in Portuguese)

Dias, M. C. L. and Rotta, T. N. (2009) Philosophy, Economics and the Crisis. Filosofia Ciência & Vida, São Paulo, Brazil, pp.14-23, 01 May 2009 (in Portuguese)

2008

Rotta, T. N. (2008) Inconvertible Money, Financial Derivatives, and Fictitious Capital. MS Thesis. Department of Economics, University of São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese). [PDF]