TY - BOOK AU - Pereira,Luiz Carlos Bresser TI - The political construction of Brazil: society, economy, and state since independence SN - 9781626373075 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - HC187 P436 2017 U1 - 330.981 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Boulder, Colorado PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers KW - Brazil KW - Economic conditions KW - Economic policy KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-398) and index N2 - Spanning the period from the country's independence in 1822 through mid-2016, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira assesses the trajectory of Brazil's political, social, and economic development. Bresser-Pereira draws on his decades of first-hand experience to shed light on the many paradoxes that have characterized Brazil's polity, its society, and the relations between the two across nearly two centuries ER -