The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism

  • autor: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

2025. An encompassing analysis of capitalism from the end of the 19th century, the rise of the managerial class, the democratic revolution and the consolidation of democracy, the mtnhagerial class in Soviet Union and statism, the neoliberal phase, the present crisis and prospects. Oxford University Press, US$ 40.00.

The Political Construction of Brazil

2017. An encompassing analysis of Brazil's society, economy, and politics since the Independence. A national-dependent interpretation. In the bookstores and in kindle

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

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

Democracy and Public Management Reform: Building the Republican State

2004.The book opens with a trenchant examination of the historical stages that led to the modern state. In order to understand such stages, the author develops a theory of republican rights linked closely to other rights such as civil, political, and social rights. Bresser-Pereira goes on to formulate a normative model of public management reform, which incorporates the roles of the state, forms of ownership, types of public administration, and organization institutions. Available in Kindle format and hard cover

Developing Brazil - Overcoming the Failure of the Washington Consensus (BOOK, 2009)

2009. An encompassing analysis of the Brazilian macroeconomic system; a first attempt to build new-developmental macroeconomics. (This book is an atualized version of Macroeconomia da Estagnação). Available in bookstores

Economic Crisis and State Reform in Brazil

1996. The 'crisis of the state interpretation'. Economic and political analysis of the crisis starting in 1980 in Latin America. Portuguese and French versions available. (Book: Lynne Rienner Publishers) Available in bookstores

Economic Reforms in New Democracies

1993. With Adam Przeworski and José María Maravall. A social democratic approach and also a crisis of the state approach to economic reforms in new democracies. Portuguese and Spanish versions available. (Book: Cambridge University Press). Available in bookstores

Technobureaucratic Capitalism

1990. The rise of technobureaucracy or the professional middle class: in capitalism, sharing power with the bourgeoisie in the Soviet Union and other comand economies, as the ruling class. It is revised translation of A Sociedade Estatal e a Tecnoburocracia (1981) with the adition of the paper "Social Classes and Strata in Contemporary Capitalism) Em formato pdf e e-book.

The Theory of Inertial Inflation

1987. With Yoshiaki Nakano. Collected papers on the theory of inertial or indexed inflation. Translation of Inflação e Recessão (1984) with the addition of paper on the 1985 Cruzado Plan. (Book: Lynne Rienner Publishers) Sold out. Available in pdf

Development and Crisis in Brazil, 1930-1983

1984. Economic development, political pacts, and crises in Brazil from 1930 to the early 1980s. English translation of the Portuguese edition. (Book: Westview Press) Available in kindle and print, and in pdf.