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The Political Construction of Brazil

Society, Economy, and State Since Independence

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira

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The Political Construction of Brazil

Society, Economy, and State Since Independence

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira

A big and bold book by a leading Brazilian public intellectual and scholar-practitioner. Whether or not one agrees with his conclusions, Bresser-Pereira reaches deep into the history of the turbulent twentieth century to set the terms for a new debate on Brazil¿s development in the twenty-first. --Matthew Taylor, American University Spanning the period from the country¿s independence in 1822 through early 2015, 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 characterized Brazil¿s polity, its society, and the relations between the two across nearly two centuries. Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira is professor emeritus of politics and economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. In addition to his long academic career, he has served as Brazil¿s minister of finance, minister of federal administration and state reform, and minister of science and technology, and also as secretary of the government of the state of São Paulo.

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1626373078

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Developmental Macroeconomics

New Developmentalism as a Growth Strategy

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira,José Luís Oreiro,Nelson Marconi

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Developmental Macroeconomics

New Developmentalism as a Growth Strategy

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira,José Luís Oreiro,Nelson Marconi

Developmental Macroeconomics: Access to Demand, the Exchange Rate and Growth offers a new approach to development economics and macroeconomics. It is a Keynesian-structuralist approach to economics applied to middle income countries that emphasizes the strategic role of demand in creating investment opportunities that are essential to economic development. It also explores crucial links between short-term full employment and financial stability with medium term growth. While this book emphasizes the central role played by the exchange rate it does not ignore other macroeconomic prices (the interest rate, the inflation rate and the profit rate). It develops a group of concepts and models and blends them together in the model of the tendency to the cyclical overvaluation of the exchange rate in developing countries. According to this model, the exchange rate tends to be chronically overvalued. In so far that this is true the exchange rate ceases to be just a short-term problem to be treated by macroeconomics and becomes central to development economics and should be crucially oriented to manage the exchange rate and keep it competitive at the industrial equilibrium level. The book closes with the presentation of new developmentalism – a national development strategy based on the system of models previously discussed that is both an alternative to old national-developmentalism and to liberal orthodoxy or the Washington consensus.

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Routledge

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1136664610

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9781136664618

Democracy and Public Management Reform

Building the Republican State

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

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Democracy and Public Management Reform

Building the Republican State

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

Building the Republican State is an insightful analysis of the new state and the new public management that is emerging in the twenty-first century. It presents the historical stages that led to the modern state, identifies a crisis of the nation-state and its origins in a fiscal crisis and in globalization, and situates public management in the last phase - the social-liberal and republican state. To understand such stages the author develops the theory of republican rights, as a fourth type of citizenship right, after the civil, the political, and the social rights. The book contains an original model of reform, in which the roles of the state, the forms of ownership, the types of public administration, and the organizational-institutions indicated in each situation are put together. Additionally, the book discusses the political theories behind the reform, and its political implications. Throughout the book, the author underlines the complementary roles of markets and the state, and the importance of building state capacity to assure administrative efficiency, always having in count the 'democratic constraint', i.e., the prevalence of the political over the economic realm. This is essential reading both for those studying political theory and government reform, as well as for anyone interested in state politics and globalization.

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OUP Oxford

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019153207X

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Globalization and Competition

Why Some Emergent Countries Succeed While Others Fall Behind

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira

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Globalization and Competition

Why Some Emergent Countries Succeed While Others Fall Behind

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira

Globalization and Competition explains why some middle-income countries, principally those in Asia, grow fast while others are not successful. The author criticizes both old-style developmentalism and the economics of the Washington Consensus. He argues instead for a "new developmentalism" or third approach that builds on a national development strategy. This approach differs from the neoliberal strategy that rich nations propose to emerging economies principally on macroeconomic grounds. Developing countries face a key obstacle to growth, namely, the tendency to overvaluate foreign exchange. Instead of neutralizing it, the policy that rich countries promote mistakenly seeks growth through foreign savings, which causes additional appreciation of the national currency and often results in financial crises rather than genuine investment.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521196353

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9780521196352

Economic Reforms in New Democracies

A Social-Democratic Approach

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira,José María Maravall,Adam Przeworski

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Economic Reforms in New Democracies

A Social-Democratic Approach

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira,José María Maravall,Adam Przeworski

A 1993 assessment of differing experiences of the transition to democracy in the countries of Southern Europe, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521438454

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9780521438452

Big Business and Brazil's Economic Reforms

By: Luiz Kormann

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Big Business and Brazil's Economic Reforms

By: Luiz Kormann

In the 1990s Brazil launched a comprehensive economic liberalization program. It lifted its trade barriers, adopted new market-oriented regulations, opened up its capital market and abandoned earlier efforts to internalize production and to build vertically integrated systems across several sectors of the economy. In spite of the visible gap that separated the top global giants from the large local enterprises, Brazilian companies seemed to be willing to join in an economic liberalization process that was bound to expose them to unprecedented levels of competition, bring about a high degree of uncertainty and, in many cases, ultimately put their own businesses at risk. Big Business and Brazil’s Economic Reforms examines the most emblematic aspect of the Brazilian economic reforms, the support from parts of the local entrepreneurial class for the opening up of the economy. It investigates the reasons why Brazil carried out these economic reforms in the 1990s, the transition process and the impact of the opening up of the economy on some of its most important sectors, such as the aerospace, auto and auto parts, food processing, oil and petrochemicals, ethanol, steel, telecoms and telecom equipment industries. This book offers an in-depth analysis of Brazil’s distinctive development paths, from the Latin American economic thinking of the early stages of its industrialization to the neo-liberal stance of the present day. It sheds new light on one of the main challenges facing all the large developing economies in their move to become more integrated into the world economy, the fostering of large enterprises, and is a great resource for students and researchers interested in global business, development economics, and Latin American economic history.

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1317602501

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Development And Crisis In Brazil, 1930-1983

By: Luiz Bresser Pereira

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Development And Crisis In Brazil, 1930-1983

By: Luiz Bresser Pereira

In this first English-language edition of a book that has seen thirteen printings in Brazil, Dr. Bresser Pereira analyzes Brazil's economy and politics from 1930, when the Brazilian industrial revolution began, up to July 1983. First addressing the period of strong development in Brazil between 1930 and 1961, he discusses at length the import-substitution model of industrialization; the emergence of new classes—industrialists, industrial workers, and especially the new technobureaucratic middle classes; the conflict between the traditional agrarian ideologies of coffee planters and the nationalistic and industrializing ideologies of the new classes; and the new realities of the 1950s that led to the crisis of the populist alliance between the industrial bourgeoisie and the workers. Next he explores the economic and political crisis of the sixties, centering on the Revolution of 1964, when an industrialized and fully capitalist— but still underdeveloped—Brazil experienced the cyclical movements of capitalism. The final chapters of the book examine the Brazilian "miracle" of 1967-1973, the economic slowdown of the 1970s that culminated in the severe recession of 1981, the dialectics between the process of abertura led by the military regime established in 1964 and the redemocratization process demanded by civil society, and the "total crisis of 1983.

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0429725345

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New Developmentalism

Introducing a New Economics and Political Economy

By: Luiz C. Bresser-Pereira

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New Developmentalism

Introducing a New Economics and Political Economy

By: Luiz C. Bresser-Pereira

This timely book offers a concise summary of new developmentalism, exploring this in the context of both heterodox economics and political economy. It adopts a historical–structural method that is critical of orthodox or Neoclassical Economics. Luis Carlos Bresser-Pereira delves into the roots of new developmentalism from the quasi-stagnation of middle-income countries, covering how it developed from Marxian economics, post-Keynesian economics and Classical Structuralism.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1803927798

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Financial Liberalization and Economic Performance

Brazil at the Crossroads

By: Luiz Fernando de Paula

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Financial Liberalization and Economic Performance

Brazil at the Crossroads

By: Luiz Fernando de Paula

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Brazil has followed a pattern of economic development inspired by Washington Consensus. This framework includes a set of liberalising and market friendly policies such as privatisation, trade liberalization, stimulus to foreign direct investment, tax reform, and social security reforms. This book assesses the determinants and impacts of financial liberalisation in Brazil considering its two dimensions: the opening up of the balance of payments capital account, and the penetration by foreign bank of the domestic banking sector. The author combines theoretical and empirical analyses. Some make use of mathematical models and/or statistical techniques; however, they are only used when they are strictly necessary to the analysis.

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1136854894

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Health as a Human Right

The Politics and Judicialisation of Health in Brazil

By: Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz

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Health as a Human Right

The Politics and Judicialisation of Health in Brazil

By: Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz

An in-depth critical analysis of the effects of the right to health in Brazil over the past thirty years.

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Cambridge University Press

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110848364X

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Globalization and Competition

Why Some Emergent Countries Succeed While Others Fall Behind

By: Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira

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Why Some Emergent Countries Succeed While Others Fall Behind

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New Developmentalism

Introducing a New Economics and Political Economy

By: Luiz C. Bresser-Pereira

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Introducing a New Economics and Political Economy

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Book's by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

The Political Construction of Brazil

The Political Construction of Brazil

Developmental Macroeconomics

Developmental Macroeconomics

Democracy and Public Management Reform

Democracy and Public Management Reform

Globalization and Competition

Globalization and Competition

Economic Reforms in New Democracies

Economic Reforms in New Democracies

Big Business and Brazil's Economic Reforms

Big Business and Brazil's Economic Reforms

Development And Crisis In Brazil, 1930-1983

Development And Crisis In Brazil, 1930-1983

New Developmentalism

New Developmentalism

Financial Liberalization and Economic Performance

Financial Liberalization and Economic Performance

Health as a Human Right

Health as a Human Right

Globalization and Competition

Globalization and Competition

New Developmentalism

New Developmentalism

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