The Brazilian Economy Today

Part I. Introduction

1. Dilemmas of Brazilian Economic Development in the Twenty-First Century
Lauro Mattei, Anthony W. Pereira

Part II. Crisis in the Global Economic Order

2. Neoliberalism, Austerity, and Crisis
Alex Callinicos

3. The Brazilian Economy after the Global Crisis: An Assessment of the Economic Slowdown in 2011–2012
Luiz Fernando Paula, André Melo Modenesi, Manoel Carlos C. Pires

Part III. The Brazilian Economy Today: Situation and Challenges

4. The Economic Policies and Performance of Brazil’s Leftist Government: A Critical Analysis
Fernando Ferrari Filho

5. Brazil after the Great Recession: Searching for a Coherent Development Strategy
Philip Arestis, Julimar Silva Bichara, André Moreira Cunha, Fernando Ferrari Filho

6. The Macroeconomic Tripod and the Workers’ Party Administration
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

Part IV. The Brazilian Social Situation Today

7. Structural Changes in Brazil: Improvements and Limits
Vanessa Petrelli Corrêa, Claudio Hamilton Santos, Niemeyer Almeida Filho

8. Development Patterns, Labor Market, and Social Protection: The Brazilian Experience between the Liberal Decade (1990s) and Developmentalism Decade (2000s)
José Celso Cardoso Júnior, Cláudia Satie Hamasaki

9. Social Policy against Poverty in Brazil
Rosa Maria Marques

Keywords: Economics, Economics, general, Development Economics, International Economics, Economic Growth, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Sustainability Management