Neodesenvolvimentismo ou modelo liberal periférico: interpretação dos governos brasileiros à luz do orçamento federal e de indicadores sociais e econômicos de 2003 a 2016

Abstract

Brazilian economists and other intellectuals in contemporary Brazil face a dilemma: the classification of the development model adopted by the Labor Party governments in the first two decades of the 21st century. On the one hand, advocates of the adoption of a new pattern of accumulation, heir to national developmentalism: neo-developmentalism. Within this core, however, two theoretical strands coexist: new developmentalism and social developmentalism. On the other hand, intellectuals affirm the implementation of an economic policy based on the central principles of the Washington Consensus: the peripheral liberal model. We recognize the new developmentalism as a version of neoliberalism, thus affiliated with the peripheral liberal model. Regarding the central objective of this work, the classification of the PT governments - and the dimensions of social structure and macroeconomic policy regime - in relation to the predominant development pattern during fractions of that government and of the period as a whole is the same. based on the analysis of budget data and economic and social indicators. In its final part, we move towards the classification of the recent period as a continuation of the economic policy started in 2015.