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Book SynopsisGrowth and Change in Neoliberal Capitalism brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho, one of the most prominent Marxist political economists today. This book offers a rich analysis of long-term economic development in the current stage of capitalism, the new relations of dependence between countries, the prospects for poor countries, and the progressive alternatives to neoliberalism. The volume also provides a detailed set of studies of the political economy of Brazil, tracking its achievements, tragedies, contradictions and limitations.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Tables and Figures Introduction 1Political Economy and Development 2The Political Economy of Brazil Part 1: 1Moving beyond the Washington Consensus: pro-poor Macroeconomic Policies 1Introduction 2Policy Principles and Constraints 3Pro-poor Macroeconomic Policy Instruments 4Conclusion 2Addressing Growth, Poverty and Inequality: from the Washington Consensus to Inclusive Growth 1Introduction 2Early Poverty Debates 3The Washington Consensus 4The Post-Washington Consensus 5The Pro-poor Policy Debates 6Policy Shift at the World Bank? 7Inclusive Growth and Its Limitations 8Conclusion 3The ‘Rise of the South’ and the Troubles of Global Convergence 1Long-term Patterns of Growth 2Development in the Age of Neoliberalism 3Convergence after the Crisis 4Drivers of Convergence 5Decoupling at Last? 6Conclusion 4Resource Curses, Diseases and Other Confusions 1Introduction 2Curses and Diseases 3Analytics of the Dutch Disease 4Economic Policy beyond Diseases and Curses 5Conclusion 5The Rise and Fall of Structuralism and Dependency Theory 1Latin American ISI 2Structuralism 3Critiques of Structuralism 4Dependency Theory 5Critiques of Dependency Theory 6Conclusion 6The Political Economy of Neoliberalism in Latin America 1ISI and Its Limits 2The Neoliberal Transition 3The Impact of Neoliberalism 4Conclusion 7The Seeds of Disaster: socialism, Agrarian Transition and Civil War in Mozambique 1Introduction 2Independence, Crisis, and the Collectivisation of Agriculture 3Modernist Marxism and the Mozambican Revolution 4Peasant Resistance 5Conclusion: Peasant Resistance and the Collapse of Collective Agriculture Part 2: 8The Costs of Neomonetarism and the Brazilian Economy in the 1990s 1Introduction 2Neomonetarist Perspectives 3Neomonetarism in Brazil 4Growth and Crisis 5Industrial Restructuring 6Fiscal and Financial Crisis 7Currency Crisis 8Conclusion 9Inflation and Stabilisation in Brazil 1Conflict, Money and Inflation 2Inflation and Monetary Crisis in Brazil 3The Real Plan 4Vulnerability of the Real 5Conclusion 10Neoliberalism in Lula’s Brazil: strategic Choice, Economic Inevitability or Schizophrenia? 1Introduction 2The Losers’ Alliance 3Lula’s Neoliberal Shift 4The Economic Stranglehold of Neoliberalism 5‘Left Neoliberal’ Economic Policy 6Policy Schizophrenia 7The 2004 Local Elections 8Conclusion 11Neodevelopmentalism and Economic Policy-making under Dilma Rousseff 1Introduction 2The Emergence of Neodevelopmentalism 3Implementing Neodevelopmentalist Policies 4The Impact of Neodevelopmentalism 5Conclusion 12Mass Protests in Brazil: the Events of June-July 2013 1Introduction 2The Events of June-July 3Sobering Lessons 4Conclusion 13Development Strategies and Social Change in Brazil 1Introduction 2From Import-substitution to Neoliberalism 3The Bourgeoisie 4The Working Class 5The Informal Proletariat 6The Middle Class 7The Lumpenisation of Politics and the Facebookisation of Protest 8Conclusion 14Social Policy for Neoliberalism:the Bolsa Família Programme 1Introduction 2Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy in Brazil 3Social Policy under Neoliberalism: the Irresistible Rise of Bolsa Família 4Limitations of PBF 5Gains beyond Social Policy 6Moving Forward 7Conclusion 15The Travails of the PT and Rise of the ‘New-Right’ in Brazil 1Lula I 2Lula II 3Dilma Rousseff I 4Dilma Rousseff II 5The Brazilian ‘New Right’ and Its Limitations 6Conclusion 16State and Power in Brazil 1The Power Bloc 2Political Forces 3The Political Regime 4Contradictions in the State Bureaucracy 5Conclusion 17Brazilian Democracy Confronts Authoritarian Neoliberalism 1Introduction 2Global Shifts 3Cycles of the Left 4Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Practice 5Conclusion 18Varieties of Neoliberalism in Brazil, 2003–2020 1Introduction 2From Modes of Production to Systems of Accumulation 3The Main SoAs in Brazil 4The Case of Neoliberalism 5The Neodevelopmentalist Alternative 6Neoliberalism in Brazil 7Conclusion References Index
