Economic Crisis and State Reform in Brazil : : Toward a New Interpretation of Latin America / / Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bresser Pereira, Luiz Carlos ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)

Bresser Pereira examines the economic crisis that took hold of Brazil and the rest of Latin America in the 1980s, its political consequences, and the economic reforms that were begun in the mid '80s, but that remain incomplete a decade later.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Introduction: The Search for a New Interpretation -- Part 1 Interpreting the Crisis -- 1 Interpretations and Strategies -- 2 The Crisis of the State Approach -- 3 The Cycles of the State -- Part 2 The Fiscal Crisis -- 4 Crisis and Change -- 5 Perverse Macroeconomics -- 6 The Debt Crisis -- 7 Hyperinflation -- Part 3 The Political Dimension -- 8 Crisis and Renewal in the Left -- 9 Political Obstacles to Economic Reform -- 10 The Collor Administration: Recurrent Political Crises -- 11 The Citizenship Contradiction -- Part 4 Formulating a Successful Strategy of Reform -- 12 Economic Reforms in Abnormal Times -- 13 A Dramatic Attack on Inflation -- 14 Attempts to Stabilize -- 15 Successful Reforms -- 16 The International Perspective -- 17 Toward a New Political Pact -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Book