A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal Melissa Teixeira

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0691191026
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691191027
• Author(s): Melissa Teixeira

Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” between laissez-faire capitalism and communism. In a corporatist society, the government vertically integrates economic and social groups into the state so that it can manage labor and economic production. In the 1930s, the dictatorships of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil and António de Oliveira Salazar in the Portuguese Empire seized upon corporatist ideas to jump-start state-led economic development. In A Third Path, Melissa Teixeira examines these pivotal but still understudied initiatives.

What distinguished Portuguese and Brazilian corporatism from other countries’ experiments with the mixed economy was how Vargas and Salazar dismantled liberal democratic institutions, celebrating their efforts to limit individual freedoms and property in pursuit of economic recovery and social peace. By tracing the movement of people and ideas across the South Atlantic, Teixeira vividly shows how two countries not often studied for their economic creativity became major centers for policy experimentation. Portuguese and Brazilian officials created laws and agencies to control pricing and production, which in turn generated new social frictions and economic problems, as individuals and firms tried to evade the rules.

Table contents:

Introduction
Part I
1. Crisis
2. Experiments in Corporatist Constitutions
Part II
3. Corporatist Economics and the Third Path
4. Just Price and Production
5. Popular and Political Economy
Part III
6. Wartime Economics
7. Corporatism to Planning
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Introduction
Part I
1. Crisis
2. Experiments in Corporatist Constitutions
Part II
3. Corporatist Economics and the Third Path
4. Just Price and Production
5. Popular and Political Economy
Part III
6. Wartime Economics
7. Corporatism to Planning
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index