Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-398) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Brazil: A History of Long Cycles and Short Political Pacts ; Colonial Constraints: Why Brazil Was Left Behind -- Part 1-The First Cycle: The State and Territorial Integration. For Reasons of State: Territorial Integration ; Herding Oligarchs: Empire, Constitutionalism, and Federalism ; The First Republic: Prerequisite to Brazil's Capitalist Revolution -- Part 2-The Second Cycle: The Nation and Development. Igniting Capitalism: The Profitable Revolution of 1930 ; Imperialism and Industrialization: The 1930 National-Popular Pact ; Crisis, Coup, and Democracy: Resuming Developmentalism After 1945 ; Coffee, Cold War, and Coup (Again): The End of the National-Popular Pact ; The Crisis of the 1960's: Inflation and the Emergence of Popular Participation ; The Military in Power: The Authoritarian-Modernizing Pact ; The Logic of Domination: The Limits of Dependency Theory ; Neutralizing the Dutch Disease: Exporting Manufactured Goods ; The Military in Office: Rise and Decline in the 1970s -- Part 3-The Third Cycle: Democracy and Social Justice. The Democratic-Popular Pact: The Bourgeoisie and the Working Class ; The Lost Decade: Stagnation and Inertial Inflation in the 1980s ; The Crisis of 1987: The Collapse of the Democratic-Popular Pact ; From Elite to Social Democracy: The 1988 Constitution ; Neoliberal Rule: Privatization and the 1991 Liberal-Dependent Pact ; Tackling High Inflation: The Real Plan ; Liberal Rhetoric: The Trap of Overvalued Exchange Rates and High Interest Rates ; Lula, Dilma, and the Alienation of the Elites ; The Pact that Never Was ; The Quasi-Stagnation Since 1981 ; Preference for Immediate Consumption and Loss of the Idea of Nation -- Part 4-Conclusion. Brazil's Capitalist Revolution, Democracy ... and Then?
Summary:
"Spanning the period from the country's independence in 1822 through mid-2016, 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."--Publisher's website.
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