RESUMOEste artigo apresenta uma medida da parcela de renda fundiária brasileira apropriada por proprietários de terras agrárias durante 1955-2005 e avalia sua importância em relação a outras formas de valor excedente apropriado na economia brasileira. O trabalho também apresenta estimativas originais de várias de séries temporais que são cruciais para o estudo do crescimento brasileiro de longo prazo e desenvolvimento. Finalmente, o papel combina as medidas obtidas com as de (Grinberg, 2008, 2013b) para apresentar uma aproximação para a evolução do total da renda fundiária brasileira durante 1955-2005. O apêndice apresenta as fontes e a metodologia utilizadas para as estimativas.

ABSTRACTThis paper presents a measurement of the portion of the Brazilian ground-rent appropriated by agrarian landowners during 1955-2005 and assesses its importance relative to other forms of surplus value appropriated in the Brazilian economy. In pursuing this task, the paper also puts forward original estimations of several time-series that are crucial for the study of Brazilian long-term growth and development. Finally, the paper combines the measurements obtained here with those advanced in (Grinberg, 2008, 2013b) to present an approximation to the evolution of the total Brazilian ground-rent during 1955-2005. The appendix presents the sources and methodology used for the estimations.

The present paper examines the Brazilian experience from the 'Economic Miracle' to the 'Lost Decade'. Its aim is to advance an alternative measurement of the flows of extraordinary wealth (i.e. ground-rent and net external credit) available for appropriation in the Brazilian economy and to asses their relevance in sustaining the process of accumulation of industrial capital. That is done in order to provide further and more accurate evidence to the claim that the evolution of the Brazilian process of capital accumulation has been extremely dependent on the evolution of those masses of extraordinary wealth.