Chadarevian The Political Economy of Lula’s Brazil

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-68740-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

After decades of ostracism, the beginning of this 21st Century saw a sharp increase in interest in Brazil. Of course, the commodities boom had a large part to play. However, as well as bananas, sugar and soybeans, Brazil is also one of the leading exporters of processed food, gasoline and medium sized airplanes. This is evidence of fundamental changes in the Brazilian economy but these recent economic and social evolutions did not happen by chance.

This book argues that it is the adoption of leftist economic policies, by means of credit, increasing wages and a change of distributional emphasis, which have boosted consumer markets and production. Along with several institutional changes adopted by Lula’s government, this shift in economic policy is key to explaining recent Brazilian growth. The book also points to the obstacles of choosing an egalitarian development path in Latin America. The perspective adopted here is innovative in the sense both of its methodology and of interpretation, most authors following a non-dogmatic critical approach, such as the French regulation school, Latin American dependency school, structuralism or post-Keynesianism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chadarevian, Pedro

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geldwirtschaft, Währungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The Praxis of Change 1. Introduction Pedro Chadarevian 2. From Lula to Dilma Rousseff: Successes and failures of the fight against poverty and the poor’s Dutch disease Pierre Salama 3. The new regime of economic growth in Brazil. An analysis of its internal and external challenges Pedro Chadarevian Part II: The Mechanisms of Change 4. Economic knowledge regime, monetary policy leeway and the abandonment of a pro poor growth regime in Brazil (2003-2015) Jaime Marques Pereira 5. Growth, functional income distribution and capital accumulation in Brazil: a prospective analysis of the contemporary period and its challenges Miguel Bruno and Ricardo Caffé 6. Domestic Markets and Consumption: Rethinking the Role of Financial Inclusion María Alejandra Madi 7. The political economy of public investment in Brazil between 2003 and 2014 Cristina Reis 8. Dependent Integration in the World Economy: The Brazilian External Sector Marcelo Milan Part III: The Challenges of Change 9. The domination dystonia. How elites put power and politics out of compass Félix Ruiz Sánchez 10. A drastic environmental shift Pedro Chadarevian 11. Higher education: development of underdevelopment or a tool to overcome it? Reginaldo Moraes 12. Conditional cash transfer programs in Brazil and their limited effects on the reduction of inequalities Robério Paulino 13. Conclusion Pedro Chadarevian