Brazil Format: Paperback

Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais

ISBN 10: 0745336701 / ISBN 13: 9780745336701

Published by University of Chicago press

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• Title: Brazil Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• ISBN 10: 0745336701
• ISBN 13: 9780745336701
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

With the sixth largest economy in the world, Brazil has played a key international role for decades. It was one of the first “pink wave” administrations in Latin America. In 1994, it was responsible for shutting down the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. Notably, it is also one of the few large countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of income has improved over the last thirty years. As we saw during the 2014 World Cup protests, however, the country still remains highly unequal, with vast unmet social welfare needs and a precarious infrastructure.
 
In Brazil: Neoliberalism Versus Democracy, Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais review the complex paradox that is modern Brazil. Focusing on 1980 to the present, they analyze the tensions between the two dominant systemic political transitions from military rule to first democracy, then neoliberalism. A groundbreaking interpretation of this intricate relationship, Brazil examines how the contradictory dynamics of these transitions eventually became symbiotic as they unfolded and intertwined. 
 

About the Author

Alfredo Saad-Filho is professor of political economy at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Marx's “Capital”, also published by Pluto Press. Lecio Morais is economics advisor at the Lower House of the Brazilian Parliament.