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Notes on Contributors xi 1 The title of the book is in fact very revealing. It intends to cover recent political economy developments in Brazil by concentrating on its recent economic performance. The period we intend to cover in the following 11 chapters in this volume focuses crucially on the first period in office of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, that is, 2002, when he was elected, to October 2006, when the election took place in Brazil and the President was re-elected. It is therefore very fitting to begin the volume with a chapter that attempts to discuss how Brazil came about accepting and embracing the political economy dimension of President Lula.Alfredo Saad-Filho in Chapter 2, 'Neoliberalism, Democracy and Economic Policy in Brazil', offers the political economy dimension to which we have just alluded. It is an interpretation of three cycles of the Brazilian left in the post-war era, and it concentrates crucially on the President Lula's first period in office. The first (anarcho-communist) cycle lasted between the early years of the twentieth century and 1935. The second was led by the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) in the middle years of the century. The third wa

Who reads Political Economy of Brazil : Recent Economic Performance?

Author

Philip Arestis, Alfredo Saad-Filho (eds.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349360321

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Economics, Political Science