TECHNOBUREAUCRATS AND MANAGERS

2025. An encompassing analysis of capitalism from the end of the 19th century, the rise of the managerial class, the democratic revolution and the consolidation of democracy, the mtnhagerial class in Soviet Union and statism, the neoliberal phase, the present crisis and prospects. Oxford University Press, US$ 40.00.

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

Oxford University Press, 2025

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Contents
Introduction

PART I. FORMS, PHASES, MODELS
1. Human Progress and the Republican State
2. The Capitalist Revolution
3. Two Forms and four Phases
4. The Developmental State
5. Imperialism and the Developing World

PART II. TWO FOUNDING REVOLUTIONS
6. The Quality of Democracy
7. The Organizational Revolution
8. Managerial Ideology
9. The Golden Age of Capitalism and the 1970s Crisis
10. The End of Station in Russia and China

PART III. THE NEOLIBERAL REGRESSION
11. The Neoliberal Turn
12. Globalization: Reality and Design
13. Rentiers and Financiers
14. Neoliberal Ideology: Reactionary and Neoconservative
15. Neoclassical Economics and its Critiques
16. Finacialization

PART IV. THE CRISIS
17. The 2008 Great Financial Crisis
18. Collapse of Neoliberalism and Secular Stagnation
19. Falling Inequality?
20. The Developing World
21. China, the US, and Developmentalism

PART V. WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR CAPITALISM?
22. Democracy Is Alive
23. Neoliberalism Collapsed
24. Democratic Managerial Capitalism
25. No Emancipatory Transition

End Notes
References
Index

2011. The 1959 Cuban Revolution was a nationalist and a socialist revolution. In both cases it was only partially successful. (Article: Estudos Avançados).

2011. The capitalist revolution is a major economic and social change that divides the history of mankind in two parts, as it opens room to development. Capitalist development, on its hand, follows a number o phases or stages. (Paper: Crítica e Sociedade)

2010. On the opportunity of the 100 years of the Soviet Revolution, I include in the first page of this site this paper. In argues that the socialist revolution turned first statist, and, second, capitalist. (Paper: Revista USP).

2008. The present global economic crisis happens in a finance based and knowledge capitalism where bright private technobureaucrats formed in the best MBAs enriched. (Umbrales de América del Sur). Versão disponível em Português

2006. In order to become again a real nation Brazil needs a encompassing national agreement, where the association between businessmen and the state bureaucracy is key. (Note in , Economia Brasileira na Encruzilhada)

2005. The rise of the professional middle class, knowledge as the new strategic factor of production, and democracy. English version available. (Paper: Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais)

Gérard Lebrun (2004) "What is technobureaucracy?". The French philosopher surveys A Sociedade Estatal e a Tecnoburocracia. Paper in the Festricht of Bresser-Pereira, Em Busca do Novo. (Paper in edited book)

2004. The rise of the professional middle class, knowledge as the new strategic factor of production, and the implications for democracy. The correspondent concept of capital.Portuguese version available.(Paper in book honoring J. K. Galbraith).

2001. An overview of the rise of the state and of public administration in Brazil since late nineteenth century, ending with the 1995/98 Public Management Reform. (Paper in edited book)

2001. The global world remains capitalist, but the key actors are not anymore capitalists but technobureaucrats. (ABCP/UFMG Boletim de Conjuntura, September 2001). Technobureaucracy, Globalization, Capitalism.

1992. The state is being criticized, on the right, by neoliberals, and on the left, by "logic of capital" Marxists. There is a cyclical aspect in it.(Paper: Lua Nova)

1990. The rise of technobureaucracy or the professional middle class: in capitalism, sharing power with the bourgeoisie in the Soviet Union and other comand economies, as the ruling class. It is revised translation of A Sociedade Estatal e a Tecnoburocracia (1981) with the adition of the paper "Social Classes and Strata in Contemporary Capitalism) Em formato pdf e e-book.

Gérard Lebrun, 1983. The French philosopher writes a survey of A Sociedade Estatal e a Tecnoburocracia and of the technobureaucratic class. (In Passeios ao Léu)