Transformações econômicas e mudanças nas relações de poder no Brasil: o modelo liberal periférico e o " risco Lula"

Abstract

This study analyzes the economic transformations and power dynamics in Brazil, highlighting the adoption of a new pattern of accumulation and its relationship with Lula's rise to the Presidency of the Republic and the PT's rise to the position of governing party. In this sense, this paper seeks to recover, through a historical and economic analysis, the context of the implementation of Neoliberalism and financialization in Brazil. In this way, it observes its macroeconomic impacts through the adoption of the Peripheral Liberal Standard. Subsequently, the paper analyzes aspects related to the bloc in power and the disputes between class fractions during the import substitution and Peripheral Liberal models. It also analyzes some central aspects such as the increase in external vulnerability and the distributive struggle over public debt. Then, it observes the impacts of the precepts of the Washington Consensus on a country that has always preserved a property structure rooted in inequality. At the same time, it observes the rise of the Workers' Party (PT) and its process of transformation during the exchange rate deterioration process in 2002. Within this context, the dissertation seeks to analyze the new dynamics of capital accumulation and the new power relations in Brazil.