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Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role
as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was
also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free
Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large
countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of
income has improved in the last thirty years. However, as protests
during the World Cup in 2014 have shown, the country remains highly
unequal, unmet social needs are vast and its infrastructure is
precarious. Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais review the paradox
that is modern-day Brazil. Focusing on the period from 1980
onwards, they analyse the tensions between the two systemic
transitions to have dominated the country: the political transition
from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism. The authors
show how these transitions had contradictory logics and dynamics,
yet ultimately became mutually supportive as they unfolded and
intertwined.
Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role
as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was
also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free
Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large
countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of
income has improved in the last thirty years. However, as protests
during the World Cup in 2014 have shown, the country remains highly
unequal, unmet social needs are vast and its infrastructure is
precarious. Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais review the paradox
that is modern-day Brazil. Focusing on the period from 1980
onwards, they analyse the tensions between the two systemic
transitions to have dominated the country: the political transition
from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism. The authors
show how these transitions had contradictory logics and dynamics,
yet ultimately became mutually supportive as they unfolded and
intertwined.
Political protests against neoliberal globalisation, corporate
power and the inequities of contemporary capitalism are increasing
all the time. Demonstrations in Seattle, Prague, Genoa and
elsewhere have fuelled the debate on the possibility of a radically
different future. This book is a collection of essays from some of
the world's leading Marxist economists on the problems of
globalisation and the evolution of modern capitalism. With
contributions from Suzanne de Brunhoff, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Ben
Fine, Simon Clarke, John Holloway and John Weeks among others, it
provides a cohesive critique of the weaknesses of the existing
system and puts forward a new agenda for anti-capitalist thought
and action. Covering key issues such as globalisation, the nation
state, money and finance, conflict and war, technological change,
the environment, class struggle, economic crisis, capitalism in the
Third World, the collapse of the USSR, and the transcendence of
capitalism, this is an ideal introduction to some of the most
pressing problems of our time.
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