L'internationalisation des milieux dirigeants au Brésil

Bibliographic Data

ID2960573
AuthorsMaria Rita Loureiro, Maria Rita Garcia Loureiro (0000-0003-3129-4956, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume121
Issue1
Pages42-51
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueActes de la recherche en sciences sociales (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0335-5322 • E-ISSN: 1955-2564
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/arss.1998.3243
OpenAlexW2052344939
LanguageFR
Citations received15
References cited2

Internationalization of Brazil's governing elites. One important dimension of the internationalization of the elites responsible for Brazil's macro-economic policies is the academic training they received abroad, and in particular in the United States. This process can be defined as the systematic adoption, by Brazilian institutions of higher education and research, of the theoretical and methodological models used in developed countries, especially in the United States. In this sense, the internationalization of economic studies is synonymous with their Americanization. The fact that Brazilian economists have been trained in American universities has fostered the emergence, among the members of these elites, of political and ideological orientations and theoretical paradigms which are relatively homogeneous, thereby exacerbating the gap between them and those economic elites advocating opposing theories and policies. The article shows how the credit acquired through these international relations is mobilized by this elite in the country's political infighting, and how the more an economist is part of the international circuit, the more he is recognized and the more the decisions he takes in a government post will be seen as legitimate

Americanization · Business · Economics · Elite · Ideology · International trade · Internationalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Brazilian History and Foreign Policy · Economic Theory and Policy · Global Financial Crisis and Policies · International Relations in Latin America · Law

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