Professor Bresser Pereira

New-Developmental Economics (NDE) - basic texts

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Steps in the construction of New Developmentalism - a personal report

2021. New Developmentalism is today an increasingly encompassing theoretical system which originated from Classical Developmentalism and Post-Keynesian Economics. In this report I will try to define the ideas that represented one step after the other the intellectual construction of New Developmentalism.

Note on the concept and measurement of the industrial equilibrium

2020. Note defiining the competitive exchange rate or industrial equilibrium - the exchange that makes competitive the companies or investment projects utilizing the best technology. A critique to a paper by José Luis Oreiro, Paulo Gala and Luciano D'Agostini. (Available in this website only).

Defining the New-Developmental Economics

2020. Short definition of the new-developmental economics. (Published only in this site)

Does the liberal policy regime condemn Latin America to quasi-stagnation?

(2020) Yes, it is, because liberals ignore the Dutch disease, recommend growth with "foreign savings", etc. Paper with Carmem Feijó e Eliane Araújo.

Neutralizing the Dutch disease

2020. A retention or tax on the export of commodities will neutralize the Dutch disease and assure to the manufacturing industry equal conditions in the competion with other countries. The tax will not represent a buden to the exporters, because they receive back their money on the form of depreciation of the real. (Paper: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics)

New Developmentalism: development macroeconomics for middle income countries

2019. This is the best summary of the economics and political economy of New Developmentalism. (Cambridge Journal of Economics)

Como se define a taxa de câmbio de equilíbrio ou competitiva? E por que a taxa de câmbio é determinante do desenvolvimento?

This note defines the competitive exchange rate and summarizes the new-developmental theory explaining why the exchange rate is determinant of investment and growth.. English version available, November 2019.

How to define the competitive exchange rate? Why is it determinant of economic growth?

This note defines the competitive exchange rate and summarizes the new-developmental theory explaining why the exchange rate is determinant of investment and growth.. Written to be published in my website. EAESP / FGV, November 2019. Portuguese version available.

Principles on New Developmentalism

2019. Fifteen principles that summarized New Developmentalism. A collective document which counted with the collaboration of several economists and political scientists.

Do desenvolvimentismo clássico e da macroeconomia pós-Keynesian ao novo desenvolvimentismo

2019. An introduction to New-Developmental Theory or New Developmentalism. How it was born from Classical Developmentalism or Development Macroeconomics and Post-Keynesian Economics. (Paper in BJPE)

From classical developmentalism and post-Keynesian macroeconomics to new developmentalism

2019. An introduction to New-Developmental Theory or New Developmentalism. How it was born from Classical Developmentalism or Development Macroeconomics and Post-Keynesian Economics. (Paper in BJPE)

Desenvolvimento, sofisticação produtiva, valor-trabalho e salários

2019. Economic growth involves increase of real wages. Which are not detemined by the subsistence level of the workers but from their cost of reproduction that increase with the value-added per capita, while the profit rate remains satisfying - enough to lead companies to invest. Paper (Nova Economia)

Capitalismo financeiro-rentista

2018. Rentiers, the inheritors of the entrepreneurs, and financiers, a special type of technobureaucrats, are the fuling classes in contemporary capitalism; neoliberalism is their ideology. The financiers manage the wealth of the idle rentiers and act as organic intellectuals of this very narrow class coalition. (Revista de Estudos Avançados,USP)

Nacionalismo econômico e desenvolvimentismo

2018. Developmentalism is the twin brother of economic nationalism, as it is the ideology of development geared toward industrialization that assumes a moderate state intervention in the economy and the defense of national interest in a world in which competition between nations is stronger than cooperation. (Paper in Economia e Sociedade; English version also in this site).

Why the 'Rest' doesn't need foreign finance

2016. Against conventional wisdom, countries that don't incur into current account deficits grow faster, because such deficits correspond to an overvalued currency that encourages consumption and discourages investment. (Paper)

Teoria novo-desenvolvimentista: uma síntese

2016. As a theoretical system, new developmentalism originates from classical developmentalism (development economics) and from post-Keynesian macroeconomics. It contains a macroeconomics, a beginning of a microeconomics, and a political economy. (Paper in Cadernos do Desenvolvimento.)

Developmental Macroeconomics: New Developmentalism as a Growth Strategy

2014. With Nelson Marconi and José Luís Oreiro. Developmental Macroeconomics is a book on development macroeconomics associated with New Developmentalism. In its core are the exchange rate and the current account, instead of the budget deficit and the interest rate. (Book: Routledge) Nas livrarias e em Kindle

Sovereignty, the exchange rate, collective deceit, and the Euro crisis

2014, with Pedro Rossi. The euro crisis is a internal exchange rate crisis; austerity is a costly and inhuman policy of internal depreciation. (paper, in the Journal of Post Keynesian Economiscs)

The access to demand

2014. In developing countries it is not enough to secure demand for entrepreneurs to invest; additionally, is required access to it, which only a competitive exchange rate can assure. (Paper Keynesian Brazilian Review)

A taxa de câmbio no centro da teoria do desenvolvimento

2012. In this paper I finally defined the relation between the exchange rate and the investment rate (and so, the growth rate). Investment depends on the exchange rate because as the theory says that it tends do become overvalued in the long-term (for several years) within the exchange rate cycle, companies will take this overvalued currency as reference in their investment decision and will refrain from investing (Paper: Estudos Avançados) English version

The exchange rate at the center of development economics

From old to new developmentalism in Latin America

2011. My more complete paper on new developmentalism. In José Antonio Ocampo and Jaime Ros, eds. Handbook of Latin America Economics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Paper). Portuguese version available.

Globalization and Competition

2010. Why some middle income countries catch up while others do not. Behind new developmentalism this book drafts a structuralist development macroeconomics in which the exchange rate plays a strategic role. (Book: Cambridge University Press).In the bookstores and in kindle

Globalización y Competencia

Mondialisation et compétition

2009. Why some middle income countries catch up while others do not. Behind new developmentalism this book drafts a structuralist development macroeconomics in which the exchange rate plays a strategic role. (Book: Éditions La Découverte) In the bookstores.

Globalização e Competição

Doença holandesa e sua neutralização: uma abordagem ricardiana

2008. A country suffering from the Dutch disease has two "equilibrium" exchange rates: the "current equilibrium" that is inconsistent with economic growth, and the"industrial equilibrium" that will be achieved if the country is able to neutralize the disease. (Paper in edited book) English version published in Brazilian Journal of Political Economy)

Crescimento e desindustrialização (Folha, 10.3.08)

2008. The manufacturing industry is growing while it is prematurely desindustrializing due to moderate but not neutralized Dutch disease. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

Macroeconomia da Estagnação

2007. An encompassing analysis of the Brazilian macroeconomic system; a first presentation of the developmental macroeconomics. Why Brazil failed to grow fast after the Real Plan. English version available. (Book: Editora 34) Esgotado nas livrarias. Developing Brazil is an atualized version of this book.

Foreign savings, insufficiency of demand, and low growth

2008. With Paulo Gala. An overvalued currency is a central cause of insufficiency of demand. The growth with foreign savings policy appreciates local currencies, increases domestic consumption, and causes domestic saving to be replaced by foreign savings. (Paper Journal of Post Keynesian Economics).

Por que a poupança externa não promove crescimento

2007. With Paulo Gala. A formalization of the critique of the strategy of growth with foreign savings: the consequent exchange rate appreciation increases artificially wages and causes the substitution of domestic with foreign savings. English version available.(Paper: Revista de Economia Política)

El nuevo desarrollismo y la ortodoxia convencional

2007. Paper comparing three growth strategies: old or national-developmentalism, new developmentalism, and Washingtons conventional orthodoxy - actually a form of neutralizing the catching up of medium income countries. Portuguese and English versions available. (Paper: Economía Unam)

O novo desenvolvimentismo e a ortodoxia convencional

2007. Paper comparing three growth strategies: old or national-developmentalism, new developmentalism, and Washingtons conventional orthodoxy - actually a form of neutralizing the catching up of medium income countries. English and Spanish versions available. (Paper: Revista São Paulo em Perspectiva)

The new developmentalism and conventional orthodoxy

2006. Paper comparing three growth strategies old or national-developmentalism, new developmentalism, and Washingtons conventional orthodoxy - actually a form of neutralizing the catching up of medium income countries. An improved version available with the title "Macroeconomics of stagnation and new developmentalism".(Paper Economie Appliquée).