The history of independent Brazil may be divided in three major political cycles, and, since 1930, we can distinguish five political pacts or class coalitions. Since 1930 these pacts have been nationalist. Only in the 1990s the Brazilian elites surrendered to the neoliberal hegemony. Yet, since...

Os empresários industriais e a burocracia pública formaram um pacto político que foi dominante no Brasil desde os anos 1930 até os anos 1980. O nacional-desenvolvimento era a estratégia de desenvolvimento que esse grupo adotou. Entretanto, o desastre econômico e político que o Plano...

O autor define neste ensaio o progresso ou o desenvolvimento humano como o gradual alcance dos cinco objetivos políticos que as sociedades modernas definiram para si próprias (segurança, liberdade individual, bem-estar, justiça social e proteção do ambiente), e o distingue do...

The history of independent Brazil may be divided into three major state–society cycles, and, after 1930, five political pacts or class coalitions can be identified. These pacts were nationalist; only in the 1990s did the Brazilian elites surrender to the neoliberal hegemony. Yet, since the...

"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...