This thorough and timely book collects essays on the political economy of Brazil, focusing on the federal administrations led by the Workers' Party (PT), under Presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff. The essays examine the economic, political, and social aspects of these governments, and a whole spectrum of policies implemented - or not - between 2003 and 2016, with implications for the subsequent period up to, and including, the administration led by Jair Bolsonaro.
What emerges from this examination is the inescapable recognition that those left leaning governments were neoliberal, but in different ways when compared with other administrations in Brazil's history. Their similarities and differences are examined in detail.
Contributors are: Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Alessandro Miebach, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Ana Paula Colombi, Andre Singer, Andreia Galvao, Armando Boito Jr, Barbara Fritz, Cecilia Hoff, Celio Hiratuka, Claudio Castelo Branco Puty, Cristhiane Falchetti, Daniela Magalhaes Prates, Denise Gentil, Eduardo Fagnani, Fabiano Santos, Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Glaison Augusto Guerrero, Guilherme Mello, Gustavo Codas Friedmann, Humberto Martins, Jose Dari Krein, Lena Lavinas, Lucas Salvador, Andrietta, Luiz Fernando de Paula, Luiz Filgueiras, Marcelo Arend, Patricia Rocha Lemos, Paula Marcelino, Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca, Pedro Mendes Loureiro, Pedro Paulo Zuluth Bastos, Pedro Rossi, Rafael Moura, Ruy Braga, and Soraia Aparecida Cardozo.
Publication date: February 7, 2023
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Introduction
Alfredo Saad-Filho
1 Shades of Neoliberalism Brazil under the Workers' Party (2003-2020)
Alfredo Saad-Filho
2 Capitalist Development and Macroeconomic Policy Regimes in Brazil since 1994
Luiz Filgueiras
3 Varieties of Developmentalism A Critical Assessment of the pt Governments
Daniela Magalhaes Prates, Barbara Fritz and Luiz Fernando de Paula
4 Puzzles of Economic Growth and Crisis under the Workers' Party Governments
Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca, Marcelo Arend and Glaison Augusto Guerrero
5 Sailing against the Wind The Rise and Crisis of a Low-Conflict Progressivism
Gustavo Codas Friedmann and Claudio A. Castelo Branco Puty
6 The Growth Model of the pt Governments A Furtadian View of the Limits of Recent Brazilian Development
Pedro Rossi, Guilherme Mello and Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos
7 The Brazilian Crises Profits, Distribution and Growth
Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Cecilia Hoff and Alessandro Miebach
8 Why Bolsonarism Should Be Characterized as Neofascism
Armando Boito Jr.
9 The Failure of Dilma Rousseff's Developmentalist Experiment
Andre Singer
10 The Political Economy of Lulism and Its Aftermath
Ruy Braga and Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos
11 Assessing the Developmentalist Character of the Workers' Party Government Project
Luiz Fernando de Paula, Fabiano Santos and Rafael Moura
12 The Limits of Dependency The Foreign Policy of Rouseff's Administration
Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos and Celio Hiratuka
13 Brazilian Labor Market From the Workers' Party Administrations to the Bolsonaro Government
Ana Paula Fregnani Colombi and Jose Dari Krein
14 A Poverty-Reducing Variety of Neoliberalism? The Workers' Party Distributive Policies
Pedro Mendes Loureiro
15 Brazilian Unions in the Twenty-First Century
Andreia Galvao and Paula Marcelino
16 Social Policy since Rousseff Misrepresentation and Marginalization
Lena Lavinas and Denise Gentil
17 The Reform of Pensions under the Workers' Party Shades of Commodification
Lucas Salvador Andrietta, Patricia Rocha Lemos and Eduardo Fagnani
18 The Housing Policy under the pt Governments Between the Social Inclusion and the Commodification
Cristhiane Falchetti
19 Tackling Regional Inequalities under the Workers' Party Advances and Limitations
Soraia Aparecida Cardozo and Humberto Martins
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