Cardoso's Brazil A Land for Sale

Name: Cardoso's Brazil A Land for Sale
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ISBN: 9780742526310

ISBN-10: 0742526313

ISBN-13: 9780742526310

Edition: 2003

Authors: James F. Petras, Henry Veltmeyer

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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 Brazil's 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 country's rural landless…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



List of Tables


List of Abbreviations


Acknowledgments



Making Brazil Safe for Capital



Capital Moves In: The Recolonization of Brazil



The Offensive against Labor: Life on the Line of Economic Reform



Participatory Local Development: In Search of an Alternative



The Agricultural Crisis



The Politics of Agrarian Reform: The Rural Landless Workers



The Electoral Politics Trap: Cardoso Leaves Office



Brazil after Cardoso: A Brief Conclusion


Appendix


Bibliography


Index


About the Authors