Neoliberalism or Developmentalism

The PT Governments in the Eye of the Storm
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47192-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 208, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

This 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. It is shown that those governments were neoliberal, but in different ways when compared with other administrations in that country. Their similarities and differences are examined in detail.

Contributors are: Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Alessandro Miebach, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Ana Paula Colombi, André Singer, Andréia Galvão, Armando Boito Jr, Barbara Fritz, Cecilia Hoff, Célio Hiratuka, Claudio Castelo Branco Puty, Cristhiane Falchetti, Daniela Magalhães Prates, Denise Gentil, Eduardo Fagnani, Fabiano Santos, Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Glaison Augusto Guerrero, Guilherme Mello, Gustavo Codas Friedmann, Humberto Martins, José Dari Krein, Lena Lavinas, Lucas Salvador, Andrietta, Luiz Fernando de Paula, Luiz Filgueiras, Marcelo Arend, Patrícia 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Saad-Filho, Alfredo

Colombi, Ana Paula

Grigera, Juan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Alfredo Saad-Filho

1 Shades of Neoliberalism: Brazil under the Worker’s 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

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

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 Crisis: profits, distribution and growth

Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Cecilia Hoff and Alessandro Miebach

8 Why Bolsonarism Should be Characterized as Neofascism

Armando Boito

9 The failure of Dilma’s Rousseff developmentalist experiment

André Singer


10 The Political Economy of Lulism and Its Aftermath

Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos and Ruy Braga Gomes Neto

11 Assessing the Developmentalist Character of the Worker’s Party Government Project

Luiz Fernando de Paula, Fabiano Santos and Rafael Moura


12 The limits of Dependency: The Foreign Policy of Rouseff’s Administration

Célio Hiratuka and Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos

13 Brazilian Labor Market: from the workers’ party administrations to the Bolsonaro Government

Ana Paula Colombi and José Dari Krein

14 A Poverty-Reducing Variety of Neoliberalism? The Worker’s Party Distributive Policies

Pedro Mendes Loureiro

15 Brazilian unions in the twenty-first century

Andréia Galvão and Paula Marcelino

16 Social Policy since Rousseff: Misrepresentation and Marginalization

Lena Lavinas and Denise Gentil

17 The reform of pensions under the Worker’s Party: shades of commodification

Lucas Salvador Andrietta, Patrícia 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 Cardozo and Humberto Martins

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor and Head of Department, Department of International Development. King’s College London. His main research interests include heterodox economic policy, strategies of industrial development, infl ation and stabilisation, and the labour theory of
value and its applications.

Ana Paula Colombi is professor at the Federal University of Espírito Santo and a researcher at the Brazilian Centre of Studies in Trade Unionism and Labor Economics, at the State University of Campinas (unicamp). Her main areas of interest are labor economics and trade unionism.

Juan Grigera is Lecturer at the Department of International Development, King's College London. His research interests include structural transformation, social conflict, and technological innovation.