Brazil by Saad-Filho, Alfredo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Acronyms Presidents of Brazil, 1930–2017 Preface Introduction

Overview Method and Analytical Framework Systems of Accumulation in Brazil Structure of the Book

1. A Troubled Path to Development

Overview ISI in Brazil Political Structures of ISI A Developmental Dictatorship Creeping Hyperinflation Distribution and Stabilisation Summary and Conclusion

2. Building a Fragile Democracy

Overview The Transition to Democracy Late Social Democracy, Late Welfare State PT Rising The Workers’ Party Grows – and Changes Summary and Conclusion

3. Inflation Stabilisation and the Transition to Neoliberalism

Overview Neoliberalism in Brazil The Real Plan The Real Plan Unravels Mature Neoliberalism Summary and Conclusion

4. Impacts of Neoliberalism

Overview The New Industrial Structure A New Pattern of Employment Limitations of Neoliberalism Summary and Conclusion

5. Neoliberalism under the Workers’ Party

Overview Running to Win: The Alliance of Losers Embracing Neoliberalism Enforcing Neoliberalism Lula Hits the Buffers Summary and Conclusion

6. Developmental Neoliberalism and the PT

Overview The Hour of Neodevelopmentalism The Alliance of Winners Developmental Neoliberalism in Practice Distributional Gains The Bolsa Família Programme Summary and Conclusion

7. From Glory to Disaster

Overview Developmental Neoliberalism under Dilma Rousseff Monetary Policy Transport, Energy, Tax The External Sector The Wheels Fall Off Developmental Neoliberalism: A Reckoning Summary and Conclusion

8. Class and Class Politics in Brazilian Neoliberalism

Overview The Bourgeoisie The Formal Working Class The Informal Working Class The Middle Class Breakdown The Lumpenisation of Politics Summary and Conclusion

9. From the Confluence of Dissatisfactions to the Restoration of Neoliberalism

Overview The Workers’ Party Courts Political Corruption Corruption and the Middle Class The Alliance of Privilege The Lava Jato Operation Dénouement: Impeachment and the Debacle of the PT Summary and Conclusion

Conclusion: Crisis of Neoliberalism, Crisis of Democracy

Limitations of Neoliberalism, Limitations of Democracy Contradictions of the Workers’ Party The Journey Thus Far

Notes References Index