Brazil

Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of International Relations at Queen's University Belfast. Previously, he was Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. His books include Marx's Capital, Neoliberalism: A Reader, Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction and Brazil: Neoliberalism versus Democracy.Lecio Morais is economics adviser at the Lower House of the Brazilian Parliament. He has published widely on political economy, with a focus on Brazilian financial institutions. He is the author of Brazil (Pluto, 2017) and Anti-Capitalism (Pluto, 2002).

'Saad-Filho and Morais excel at providing a critical, powerful and persuasive analysis for Brazil's economic, social, and political development since the 1930s, emphasizing distinct transition paths from dictatorship to democracy and from state-led industrialization to neoliberalism. Grounded on a solid marxist political economy framework, this book is a must-read to understand Brazil's current predicament and defying challenges ahead'

• Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsAcronymsPresidents of Brazil, 1930-2017PrefaceIntroduction1. A Troubled Path to Development2. Building a Fragile Democracy3. Inflation Stabilisation and the Transition to Neoliberalism4. Impacts of Neoliberalism5. Neoliberalism under the Workers’ Party6. Developmental Neoliberalism and the PT7. From Glory to Disaster8. Class and Class Politics in Brazilian Neoliberalism9. From the Confluence of Dissatisfactions to the Restoration of NeoliberalismConclusion: Crisis of Neoliberalism, Crisis of DemocracyNotesReferencesIndex