Brazil: Neoliberalism versus Democracy

by Lecio Morais and Alfredo Saad-Filho

Book Overview

Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of income has improved in the last thirty years.

However, as protests during the World Cup in 2014 have shown, the country...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745336752
• ISBN13: 9780745336756
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"