The two forms of capitalism

Developmentalism and Economic Liberalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4368907
AutoresLuiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira (0000-0001-8679-0557, Fundação Getulio Vargas, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen37
Número4
Páginas680-703
Fecha de publicación2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBrazilian Journal of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0101-3157 • E-ISSN: 1809-4538
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0101-31572017v37n04a02
OpenAlexW2789277360
SCIELO_PIDS0101-31572017000400680
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas16

This paper argues that the state and the market are the main institutions regulating capitalism, and, correspondingly, that the form of the economic and political coordination of capitalism will be either developmental or liberal. It defines the developmental state, relates it to the formation of a developmental class coalition, and notes that capitalism was born developmental in its mercantilist phase, turned liberal in the nineteenth century, and, after 1929, became once again developmental, but, now, democratic and progressive. All industrial and capitalist revolutions took place within the framework of developmentalism, whereby the state coordinates the non-competitive sector of the economy and the five macroeconomic prices (which the market is unable to make "right"), while the market coordinates the competitive sector. In the 1970s, a crisis opened the way for a short-lived and reactionary form of capitalism, neoliberalism or rentier-financier capitalism. Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the neoliberal hegemony has come to an end, and we are now experiencing a period of transition

Capitalism · Developmental state · Developmentalism · Economic system · Economics · Free market · Hegemony · Liberalism · Market economy · Mercantilism · Neoclassical economics · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · State (computer science · State capitalism · Economic Theory and Policy · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism