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Informationen zum Autor Pedro Chadarevian is Assistant Professor at Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, where he teaches economics and public policy. He has been working on several research issues including racial inequalities, affirmative action, economic development and the political economy of the environment and climate change. Klappentext The early 21st Century saw a boom in Brazil's economy. Commodities had a large part to play, including bananas, sugar and soybeans, but also processed food, gasoline and medium sized airplanes. This book argues it is the adoption of leftist economic policies and changes made by Lula's government which are key to explaining recent Brazilian growth. Zusammenfassung The early 21st Century saw a boom in Brazil’s economy. Commodities had a large part to play, including bananas, sugar and soybeans, but also processed food, gasoline and medium sized airplanes. This book argues it is the adoption of leftist economic policies and changes made by Lula’s government which are key to explaining recent Brazilian growth. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I The praxis of change. 1. Introduction, Pedro Chadarevian, 2. Is the change in globalization’s rhythm an opportunity for Latin-American emerging economies?, Pierre Salama, 3. Lula's economic model and post-neoliberalism in Brazil, Pedro Chadarevian. PART II The mechanisms of change. 4. Money, politics and the possibility of a mode of regulation based on the internal market, Jaime Marques Pereira, 5. Growth, functional income distribution and capital accumulation in Brazil: a prospective analysis of the contemporary period, Miguel Bruno and Ricardo Caffé, 6. Financial markets, public policy and consumer credit growth in Brazil, María Alejandra Caporale Madi, 7. Hits and misses of public investment strategy in Brazil, Cristina Froes de Borja Reis, 8. Sovereign or dependent integration into the world economy? The Brazilian external sector, Marcelo Milan. PART III The challenges of change. 9. Dystonia as domination: how the Brazilian elites have put power and politics out of step, Félix Ruiz Sánchez, 10. Rain forests, land rent and the ecological contradictions of development in contemporary Brazil, Pedro Chadarevian, 11. Higher education: development of underdevelopment or a tool to overcome it?, Reginaldo Moraes, 12. The impact of conditional cash transfer programs in Brazil and their limits, Robério Paulino, 13. Conclusion, Pedro Chadarevian ...
