Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

Oxford University Press, 2025

Contra Capa
Contents
Introduction

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 Quality of Democracy
7. The Organizational Revolution
8. Managerial Ideology
9. The Golden Age of Capitalism and the 1970s Crisis
10. The End of Station 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
15. Neoclassical Economics and its Critiques
16. Finacialization

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

End Notes
References
Index