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Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
Boulder: Westview Press, 1984.
1984. The successive models or patterns of economic development and corresponding political pacts, separated by two crises, in Brazil from 1930 to the early 1980s. English translation of the forth edition of Desenvolvimento e Crise no Brasil: 1930-1983 . Boulder (Colorado): Westview Press, 1984 (correspondes to the Brazilian fourth edition).
CONTENTS
List of Tables and Figures
Foreword, Thomas C. Bruneau
Introduction
2. Import-Substitution Industrialization
3. Social Development and the emergence of New Classes
4. Political Development and the Crisis of the Populist Alliance
6. The Viability of Capitalist Development
7. The Post-1966 Expansion and the New Model
9. The Dialectic of Redemocratization and Abertura
10. Conclusion: Fifty Years of Development and Crisis
Notes
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
Review published in Choice, December 1984.
The boom and bust cycles of capitalism led to economic miracles and recessions, resulting in social problems as the industrial classes vied to control government economic policy.
This first translation keeps the character of the original work in Portuguese. The bibliography is extensive figures and tables are useful and help to illuminate the narrative. The work s and adds new scope and perspective to such works as William Tyler’s The Brazilian Industrial Economy (1981). For a divergent view see Theotonio dos
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