Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira is Emeritus Professor of Getúlio Vargas Foundation, editor of the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy and founding member of the Arns Commission for the Defence of Human Rights. He was finance minister (1987) and minister of federal administration of Brazil (1995-98). He holds an MBA from Michigan State University, a law degree, and a PhD in economics from the University of São Paulo.

Bresser-Pereira has produced one of the most comprehensive interpretations of capitalism's evolution since the financial crisis, combining analytical rigour with moral and political commitment.

• Part I: Forms, Phases, Models 1: Human progress and the republican state 2: The Capitalist Revolution 3: Two forms and four phases 4: The developmental state 5: Imperialism and the developing world Part II: Two Founding Revolutions 6: The Democratic Revolution 7: Organizational Revolution 8: The managerial ideology 9: The Golden Age and the 1970s crisis 10: The end of statism in Russia and China Part III: The neoliberal regression 11: The Neoliberal Turn 12: Globalization: reality and design 13: Rentiers and financiers 14: Neoliberal ideology: reactionary and neoconservative (Google) 15: Neoclassical Economics and its critiques 16: Financialisation Part IV: The crisis 17: The 2008 Great Financial Crisis 18: Collapse of neoliberalism and secular stagnation 19: Falling inequality? 20: The developing world 21: China, the US, and developmentalism Part V: What lies ahead for capitalism? 22: Democracy is alive 23: Neoliberalism collapsed 24: Democratic Managerial Capitalism 25: No emancipatory transition

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira is Emeritus Professor of Getúlio Vargas Foundation, editor of the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy and founding member of the Arns Commission for the Defence of Human Rights. He was finance minister (1987) and minister of federal administration of Brazil (1995-98). He holds an MBA from Michigan State University, a law degree, and a PhD in economics from the University of São Paulo.

Bresser-Pereira has produced one of the most comprehensive interpretations of capitalism's evolution since the financial crisis, combining analytical rigour with moral and political commitment.

• Part I: Forms, Phases, Models 1: Human progress and the republican state 2: The Capitalist Revolution 3: Two forms and four phases 4: The developmental state 5: Imperialism and the developing world Part II: Two Founding Revolutions 6: The Democratic Revolution 7: Organizational Revolution 8: The managerial ideology 9: The Golden Age and the 1970s crisis 10: The end of statism in Russia and China Part III: The neoliberal regression 11: The Neoliberal Turn 12: Globalization: reality and design 13: Rentiers and financiers 14: Neoliberal ideology: reactionary and neoconservative (Google) 15: Neoclassical Economics and its critiques 16: Financialisation Part IV: The crisis 17: The 2008 Great Financial Crisis 18: Collapse of neoliberalism and secular stagnation 19: Falling inequality? 20: The developing world 21: China, the US, and developmentalism Part V: What lies ahead for capitalism? 22: Democracy is alive 23: Neoliberalism collapsed 24: Democratic Managerial Capitalism 25: No emancipatory transition