Growth and Change in Neoliberal Capitalism: Essays on the Political Economy of Late Development

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-34981-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 174, 486 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sci

Growth and Change in Neoliberal Capitalism brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho, one of the most prominent Marxist political economists today. This book offers a rich analysis of long-term economic development in the current stage of capitalism, the new relations of dependence between countries, the prospects for poor countries, and the progressive alternatives to neoliberalism. The volume also provides a detailed set of studies of the political economy of Brazil, tracking its achievements, tragedies, contradictions and limitations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saad-Filho, Alfredo

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction

1Political Economy and Development

2The Political Economy of Brazil

Part 1:

1Moving beyond the Washington Consensus: pro-poor Macroeconomic Policies

1Introduction

2Policy Principles and Constraints

3Pro-poor Macroeconomic Policy Instruments

4Conclusion

2Addressing Growth, Poverty and Inequality: from the Washington Consensus to Inclusive Growth

1Introduction

2Early Poverty Debates

3The Washington Consensus

4The Post-Washington Consensus

5The Pro-poor Policy Debates

6Policy Shift at the World Bank?

7Inclusive Growth and Its Limitations

8Conclusion

3The ‘Rise of the South’ and the Troubles of Global Convergence

1Long-term Patterns of Growth

2Development in the Age of Neoliberalism

3Convergence after the Crisis

4Drivers of Convergence

5Decoupling at Last?

6Conclusion

4Resource Curses, Diseases and Other Confusions

1Introduction

2Curses and Diseases

3Analytics of the Dutch Disease

4Economic Policy beyond Diseases and Curses

5Conclusion

5The Rise and Fall of Structuralism and Dependency Theory

1Latin American ISI

2Structuralism

3Critiques of Structuralism

4Dependency Theory

5Critiques of Dependency Theory

6Conclusion

6The Political Economy of Neoliberalism in Latin America

1ISI and Its Limits

2The Neoliberal Transition

3The Impact of Neoliberalism

4Conclusion

7The Seeds of Disaster: socialism, Agrarian Transition and Civil War in Mozambique

1Introduction

2Independence, Crisis, and the Collectivisation of Agriculture

3Modernist Marxism and the Mozambican Revolution

4Peasant Resistance

5Conclusion: Peasant Resistance and the Collapse of Collective Agriculture

Part 2:

8The Costs of Neomonetarism and the Brazilian Economy in the 1990s

1Introduction

2Neomonetarist Perspectives

3Neomonetarism in Brazil

4Growth and Crisis

5Industrial Restructuring

6Fiscal and Financial Crisis

7Currency Crisis

8Conclusion

9Inflation and Stabilisation in Brazil

1Conflict, Money and Inflation

2Inflation and Monetary Crisis in Brazil

3The Real Plan

4Vulnerability of the Real

5Conclusion

10Neoliberalism in Lula’s Brazil: strategic Choice, Economic Inevitability or Schizophrenia?

1Introduction

2The Losers’ Alliance

3Lula’s Neoliberal Shift

4The Economic Stranglehold of Neoliberalism

5‘Left Neoliberal’ Economic Policy

6Policy Schizophrenia

7The 2004 Local Elections

8Conclusion

11Neodevelopmentalism and Economic Policy-making under Dilma Rousseff

1Introduction

2The Emergence of Neodevelopmentalism

3Implementing Neodevelopmentalist Policies

4The Impact of Neodevelopmentalism

5Conclusion

12Mass Protests in Brazil: the Events of June-July 2013

1Introduction

2The Events of June-July

3Sobering Lessons

4Conclusion

13Development Strategies and Social Change in Brazil

1Introduction

2From Import-substitution to Neoliberalism

3The Bourgeoisie

4The Working Class

5The Informal Proletariat

6The Middle Class

7The Lumpenisation of Politics and the Facebookisation of Protest

8Conclusion

14Social Policy for Neoliberalism:the Bolsa Família Programme

1Introduction

2Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy in Brazil

3Social Policy under Neoliberalism: the Irresistible Rise of Bolsa Família

4Limitations of PBF

5Gains beyond Social Policy

6Moving Forward

7Conclusion

15The Travails of the PT and Rise of the ‘New-Right’ in Brazil

1Lula I

2Lula II

3Dilma Rousseff I

4Dilma Rousseff II

5The Brazilian ‘New Right’ and Its Limitations

6Conclusion

16State and Power in Brazil

1The Power Bloc

2Political Forces

3The Political Regime

4Contradictions in the State Bureaucracy

5Conclusion

17Brazilian Democracy Confronts Authoritarian Neoliberalism

1Introduction

2Global Shifts

3Cycles of the Left

4Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Practice

5Conclusion

18Varieties of Neoliberalism in Brazil, 2003–2020

1Introduction

2From Modes of Production to Systems of Accumulation

3The Main SoAs in Brazil

4The Case of Neoliberalism

5The Neodevelopmentalist Alternative

6Neoliberalism in Brazil

7Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alfredo Saad-Filho is a Professor at King’s College London. He is the author of Value and Crisis (Brill, 2019) and co-author of Brazil: Neoliberalism versus Democracy (Pluto, 2017) and Marx’s Capital (Pluto, 2016), and numerous works on Marxist political economy, neoliberalism, democracy, and alternative economic policies.