Table of Contents

Acknowledgements


List of Figures and Tables


Abbreviations


Notes on Contributors


Introduction

  Alfredo Saad-Filho



1 Shades of Neoliberalism Brazil under the Workers’ Party (2003–2020)

  Alfredo Saad-Filho



2 Capitalist Development and Macroeconomic Policy Regimes in Brazil since 1994

  Luiz Filgueiras



3 Varieties of Developmentalism A Critical Assessment of the pt Governments

  Daniela Magalhães Prates, Barbara Fritz and Luiz Fernando de Paula



4 Puzzles of Economic Growth and Crisis under the Workers’ Party Governments

  Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca, Marcelo Arend and Glaison Augusto Guerrero



5 Sailing against the Wind The Rise and Crisis of a Low-Conflict Progressivism

  Gustavo Codas Friedmann and Claudio A. Castelo Branco Puty



6 The Growth Model of the pt Governments A Furtadian View of the Limits of Recent Brazilian Development

  Pedro Rossi, Guilherme Mello and Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos



7 The Brazilian Crises Profits, Distribution and Growth

  Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Cecilia Hoff and Alessandro Miebach



8 Why Bolsonarism Should Be Characterized as Neofascism

  Armando Boito Jr.



9 The Failure of Dilma Rousseff’s Developmentalist Experiment

  André Singer



10 The Political Economy of Lulism and Its Aftermath

  Ruy Braga and Fábio Luis Barbosa dos Santos



11 Assessing the Developmentalist Character of the Workers’ Party Government Project

  Luiz Fernando de Paula, Fabiano Santos and Rafael Moura



12 The Limits of Dependency The Foreign Policy of Rouseff’s Administration

  Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos and Célio Hiratuka



13 Brazilian Labor Market From the Workers’ Party Administrations to the Bolsonaro Government

  Ana Paula Fregnani Colombi and José Dari Krein



14 A Poverty-Reducing Variety of Neoliberalism? The Workers’ Party Distributive Policies

  Pedro Mendes Loureiro



15 Brazilian Unions in the Twenty-First Century

  Andréia Galvão and Paula Marcelino



16 Social Policy since Rousseff Misrepresentation and Marginalization

  Lena Lavinas and Denise Gentil



17 The Reform of Pensions under the Workers’ Party Shades of Commodification

  Lucas Salvador Andrietta, Patrícia Rocha Lemos and Eduardo Fagnani



18 The Housing Policy under the pt Governments Between the Social Inclusion and the Commodification

  Cristhiane Falchetti



19 Tackling Regional Inequalities under the Workers’ Party Advances and Limitations

  Soraia Aparecida Cardozo and Humberto Martins



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About the Author

Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor and Head of Department, Department of International Development. King’s College London. His main research interests include heterodox economic policy, strategies of industrial development, infl ation and stabilisation, and the labour theory of
value and its applications.

Ana Paula Colombi is professor at the Federal University of Espírito Santo and a researcher at the Brazilian Centre of Studies in Trade Unionism and Labor Economics, at the State University of Campinas (unicamp). Her main areas of interest are labor economics and trade unionism.

Juan Grigera is Lecturer at the Department of International Development, King's College London. His research interests include structural transformation, social conflict, and technological innovation.