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O nacional populismo veio para ficar

  • autor: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

2024. National populism is a reaction against the failure of the neoliberal orthodoxy in causing instability and growth. Now we see a change to developmentalism in the US, which may stop right-wing populism. (Insight Inteligencia)

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A democracia não está morrendo. Foi o neoliberalismo que fracassou.

2020. In rich countries, the authoritarian character of right-wing populism does not mean that democracy is dying. It is a reaction to neoliberalism which in the last 40 years didn't improve the sort of the white lower middle-class.  (Lua Nova-Revista de Cultura Política) English version available.

Democracy is not dying. It was neoliberalism that failed

  • autor: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

2020. In rich countries, the authoritarian character of right-wing populism does not mean that democracy is dying. It is a reaction to neoliberalism which in the last 40 years didn't improve the sort of the white lower middle-class.  Portuguese version available.

The Political Construction of Brazil

2017. An encompassing analysis of Brazil's society, economy, and politics since the Independence. A national-dependent interpretation. In the bookstores and in kindle

A Construção Política e Econômica do Brasil

2021. An encompassing analysis of Brazil's society, economy, and politics since the Independence. A national-dependent interpretation. (Book: Editora 34, updated 4th edition, 2021). Nas livrarias e Em kindle.

O fracasso de dois populismos - o liberal e o desenvolvimentista - desde o Plano Real

2015. From the Real Plan the Brazilian economy is caught in a trap of high interests rates and overvalued currency, but the fiscal and especially the exchange rate populism on the right and on the left impede the solution of the problem. (Lecture)

Argentina, developmentalism and populism (Folha, 03.6.13)

2013. The Argentinian case shows how an initially competent developmentalism may later drift to fiscal and exchange rate populism (Articles: Folha de S. Paulo)

A caminho do fracasso (Folha, 03.6.13)

2013. Argentina mostra como o desenvolvimentismo corre o risco de derivar para o populismo fiscal e cambial. (Articles: Folha de S.Paulo)

A experiência populista de redistribuição de renda

Adolfo Canitrot ([1975] 1991) in Bresser-Pereira, org. Populismo Econômico. São Paulo: Editora Nobel. pp. 11-36

Hoy en Brasil hay un populismo de tipo cambio

2010. The Lula administration is an example of exchange rate populism. Interview to Laura García for Cronista.com de Buenos Aires.

Taxa de câmbio, doença holandesa, e industrialização

2010. The Brazilian economy is undergoing deindustrialization due to a chronic overvaluation of the real. The structural development macroeconomics that I have been developing since the early 2000s explains why. (Cadernos FGV Projetos)

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Bresser-Pereira critica FHC e Lula de populismo cambial (Estado, 10.10.06)

2006. FHC and Lula incurred in exchange rate populism (populismo cambial). (Interview: O Estado de S.Paulo)

A economia política da desgovernança econômica global

2005. The balance of payment crises in developing countries (originated in the strategy of growth with foreign savings) and the enormous US current account deficit are both the outcome of economic populism. The later problem points out to a hard landing. English version available.(Paper: Estudos Econômicos) .

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O estadista brasileiro do século 20 (Folha, 22.08.04)

2004. Getúlio Vargas was populist in political but not in economic terms. He was Brazils major statesman in the 20th century. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

Democracia brasileira, no momento das eleições de 2002

2002. Presidential elections demonstrated that democracy is consolidated, in transition from an elites to a public opinions democracy. (Note: Not published)

Decisões estratégicas e overlapping consensus na América Latina

2001. There are some consensus and some strategic decisions to be taken in Latin America, after the crisis of structuralism, and of orthodox reforms. English version available.(Paper: Revista de Economia Política) *

After structuralism, a development alternative for Latin America

2001. There are some consensus and some strategic decisions to be taken in Latin America, after the crisis of structuralism, and of orthodox reforms. Portuguese version available. (Paper presented in conference at Oxford University; not published; available only in this site)

Heterodoxia e ortodoxia no Plano Bresser

1993. Economic heterodoxy should not be confused with economic populism. The Bresser-Plan was both heterodox and orthodox. (Conjuntura Econômica")

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Populismo Econômico

1991. Ortodoxy, economic popullsm and developmentalism in Latin America. The articles by Canitrot, O'Donnell, and Diaz-Alejandro are classical texts. PDF version now available. (Edited book)

Economic populism versus Keynes: reinterpreting budget Deficit in Latin America

1991. With Fernando Dall'Acqua. Contrarily to what economic populists say, Keynes only admited budget deficits in special situations, as a temporary depart from fiscal balance.
Portuguese version
available.(Paper: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics)