{"product_id":"growth-and-change-in-neoliberal-capitalism-essays-on-the-political-economy-of-late-development-9789004349810","title":"Growth and Change in Neoliberal Capitalism: Essays on the Political Economy of Late Development","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowth 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210730365271,"sku":"9789004349810","price":210.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/growth-and-change-in-neoliberal-capitalism-essays-on-the-political-economy-of-late-development-9789004349810","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}