Cardoso's Brazil: A Land for Sale - Couverture souple

Petras, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0742526313 ISBN 13 : 9780742526310

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

Offering a systematic, critical analysis of the presidency of Fernando Cardoso, this ambitious case study assesses government policies within the framework of the new economic model of globalization and structural adjustment. Petras and Veltmeyer argue that Cardoso paved the way for what amounted to the takeover of a large and important part of Brazils economy by foreign investors. The authors discuss the neoliberal model of capitalist development, the privatization of key sectors and enterprises, the human cost of structural adjustment, and the search for a community-based form of local development. The crisis in agriculture and the dynamic responses of the countrys rural landless workers precipitated the rise of Brazils populist new president, Lula, whom the authors charge has started down the same path as his predecessor.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

James Kurth Department of Political Science, Swarthmore College James Petras Department of Sociology, CUNY Binghampton

Henry Veltmeyer is Professor of Development Studies at Saint Mary's University (Canada) and at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Mexico). He is author, co-author and editor of over forty books on issues regarding Latin American and world development, including Critical Development Studies: Tools for Change, The Cuban Revolution as Socialist Human Development, and Development in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization. Books co-authored with James Petras include Unmasking Globalization, System in Crisis, and What's Left in Latin America.

James Petras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghampton University and Adjunct Professor in International Development Studies at Saint Mary's University (Canada). He is the author and co-author of over sixty books and numerous other writings on the dynamics of world affairs and Latin American development, including Unmasking Globalization, Social Movements and the State, Multinationals on Trial, What's Left in Latin America, and Social Movements in Latin America. Many of his periodical and political writings are accessible via www.rebelion.org.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0742526313
• ISBN 13: 9780742526310
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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