Developing Brazil : overcoming the failure of the Washington consensus / / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463904503321
• Autore: Pereira Luiz Carlos Bresser
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2009; ©2009
• ISBN: 1-62637-132-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.981
• Soggetti: Macroeconomics - Brazil; Electronic books.; Brazil Economic policy; Brazil Economic conditions 1985-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Notes""; ""Introduction""; ""Method""; ""The Conventional Orthodoxy and New Developmentalism""; ""The Conventional Orthodoxy Defined""; ""Nation and Globalization""; ""Societyâ€?s Cycles and State Cycles""; ""Notes""; ""1-Low Growth""; ""Low Growth Rates""; ""Macroeconomic Instability""; ""A Perverse System""; ""Notes""; ""2-The Old Developmentalism""; ""Economic Inequality and Populism""; ""Democratic Transition and Distribution""; ""Crisis and Surrender to the North""; ""Notes""; ""3-Reforms and Institutions""; ""The Criteria for Choosing Strategic Policy Variables""""The Role of Institutions""; ""What Reforms?""; ""The 1995 Public Management Reform""; ""Notes""; ""4-The Fiscal Debate""; ""High Tax Burden and Negative Public Savings""; ""Interest and Social Spending""; ""Fiscal Adjustment First?""; ""Notes""; ""5-Is Inflation a Real Threat?""; ""The Inflation Targeting Policy""; ""The Inflation Targeting Regime""; ""Monetary Policy Regime""; ""Notes""; ""6-Overappreciated Currency and the Dutch Disease""; ""An Obstacle on the Demand Side""; ""The Tendency to the Overappreciation of the Exchange Rate""""The Dutch Disease""; ""The Dutch Disease in Brazil""; ""Notes""; ""7-; Overappreciation and Foreign Savings""; ""Growth with Foreign Savings""; ""Foreign Savings and No Growth: 1994â€?2002""; ""Substitution of Foreign for Domestic Savings""; ""State Exports and Some Growth Since 2003""; ""Notes""; ""8-High Interest Rates""; ""The Short and Long Terms and Brazilâ€?s Sovereign Risk""; ""The Wolf and Sheep Story""; ""Better Causes""; ""Natural Rate and Contradiction""; ""Notes""; ""9-A Macroeconomic Model""; ""The Perverse and the Benign Frameworks""""The Interest and Exchange Rate Trap""; ""Equilibrium Interest Rate""; ""Economic Policy""; ""Model Summary""; ""Notes""; ""10-Political Coalitions""; ""The Neoliberal-Dependent Pact and the Washington Consensus""; ""National Agreement""; ""An Alternative Coalition""; ""Notes""; ""11-New Developmentalism""; ""Old and New Developmentalism Compared""; ""New Developmentalism and the Conventional Orthodoxy""; ""Reduced Interest Rate""; ""A National Development Strategy""; ""Notes""; ""Acronyms""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Book""