Economic Crisis & State Reform in Brazil: Toward a New Interpretation of Latin America

From: Journal of Third World Studies | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Pereira, Luiz Carlos Bresser. Economic Crisis & State Reform in Brazil: Toward a New Interpretation of Latin America. Boulder, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers,1996. 257 p.

Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira is a distinguished academic economist and a cabinet minister in Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government. He is a past Finance Minister of Brazil. Such a degree of distinction and engagement fairly scream to a scholar interested in Brazil or Latin America, "Read this book!" Pereira, moreover, sets out to break new ground, as indicated by his subtitle, "Toward a New Interpretation of Latin ...

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