The Political Construction of Brazil : : Society, Economy, and State Since Independence / / ed. by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira.
Spanning the period from the country’s independence in 1822 through mid-2016, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira assesses the trajectory of Brazil's political, social, and economic development. Bresser-Pereira draws on his decades of first-hand experience to shed light on the many paradoxes that have...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Brazil: A History of Long Cycles and Short Political Pacts
- 2 Colonial Constraints: Why Brazil Was Left Behind
- Part 1. The First Cycle: The State and Territorial Integration
- 3 For Reasons of State: Territorial Integration
- 4 Herding Oligarchs: Empire, Constitutionalism, and Federalism
- 5 The First Republic: Prerequisite to Brazil’s Capitalist Revolution
- Part 2. The Second Cycle: The Nation and Development
- 6 Igniting Capitalism: The Profitable Revolution of 1930
- 7 Imperialism and Industrialization: The 1930 National-Popular Pact
- 8 Crisis, Coup, and Democracy: Resuming Developmentalism After 1945
- 9 Coffee, Cold War, and Coup (Again): The End of the National-Popular Pact
- 10 The Crisis of the 1960s: Inflation and the Emergence of Popular Participation
- 11 The Military in Power: The Authoritarian-Modernizing Pact
- 12 The Logic of Domination: The Limits of Dependency Theory
- 13 Neutralizing the Dutch Disease: Exporting Manufactured Goods
- 14 The Military in Office: Rise and Decline in the 1970s
- Part 3. The Third Cycle: Democracy and Social Justice
- 15 The Democratic-Popular Pact: The Bourgeoisie and the Working Class
- 16 The Lost Decade: Stagnation and Inertial Inflation in the 1980s
- 17 The Crisis of 1987: The Collapse of the Democratic-Popular Pact
- 18 From Elite to Social Democracy: The 1988 Constitution
- 19 Neoliberal Rule: Privatization and the 1991 Liberal-Dependent Pact
- 20 Tackling High Inflation: The Real Plan
- 21 Liberal Rhetoric: The Trap of Overvalued Exchange Rates and High Interest Rates
- 22 Lula, Dilma, and the Alienation of the Elites
- 23 The Pact that Never Was
- 24 The Quasi-Stagnation Since 1981
- 25 Preference for Immediate Consumption and Loss of the Idea of Nation
- Part 4. Conclusion
- 26 Brazil’s Capitalist Revolution, Democracy ... and Then?
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index
- About the Book