Overview
Provides a Detailed Analysis of Argentine and Brazilian Political Economy Over the Last Three Decades. In the two largest countries in South America, successive waves of structural reforms adopted in the name of development invariably have ended in disappointment. The promise of development never seems to materialize. Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina examines why. Instead of looking for policy failures, F. Antunes de Oliveira's focus is on the parameters of the public debate about development itself. An unfruitful dispute between neoliberalism and neodevelopmentalism has dominated Brazilian and Argentine political economy debates to the detriment of both countries. Antunes de Oliveira presents a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of the neoliberal and neodevelopmentalist structural reform cycles in Brazil and Argentina and applies insights from dependency theory to craft an alternative political economy framework for the analysis of development challenges. AUTHOR: F. Antunes de Oliveira is a senior lecturer in international relations at Queen Mary University of London and coordinating editor at Latin American Perspectives. Before joining Queen Mary, he worked as a diplomat at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Full Product Details
Author: Felipe de Oliviera Antunes
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822948100
ISBN 10: 0822948109
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 10 June 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina: A Critique of Market and State Utopias is an excellent study of the tensions between neoliberalism and neodevelopmentalism in these two countries. Antunes de Oliveira's comparative approach and his deep knowledge provide a new, rich history of political and economic disappointment. This study is a major contribution to development studies and Latin American studies."" --Michael A. Cohen, The New School ""At a moment when dependency theory is having a revival, Antunes de Oliveira's deep and innovative reading of key insights from Latin American dependency theorists is timely. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in efforts to understand trajectories of social, political, and economic change in Brazil and Argentina from a non-Eurocentric starting point."" --Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, King's College"
""Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina: A Critique of Market and State Utopias is an excellent study of the tensions between neoliberalism and neodevelopmentalism in these two countries. Antunes de Oliveira's comparative approach and his deep knowledge provide a new, rich history of political and economic disappointment. This study is a major contribution to development studies and Latin American studies."" --Michael A. Cohen, The New School ""At a moment when dependency theory is having a revival, Antunes de Oliveira's deep and innovative reading of key insights from Latin American dependency theorists is timely. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in efforts to understand trajectories of social, political, and economic change in Brazil and Argentina from a non-Eurocentric starting point."" --Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, King's College
Author Information
F. Antunes de Oliveira is a senior lecturer in international relations at Queen Mary University of London and coordinating editor at Latin American Perspectives. Before joining Queen Mary, he worked as a diplomat at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
