The Brazilian economy: Options for the eighties

The discussion of the options open to the Brazilian economy for the 1980s will only be useful if it manages to break through the hidebound technocratic conservatism which reduces everything to a question of “competence” in managing short-term economic policy. Today as yesterday, the best remedies for this disease are a historical perspective, a critical evaluation of the changing international situation and, no less important, the deliberate return of economics to its original calling, namely, political economy.