Financialized growth regime and capital accumulation in Brazil: geopolitical and institutional factors of the recent collapse and beyond

Régime de croissance financiarisé et accumulation du capital au Brésil: facteurs géopolitiques et institutionnels de l’effondrement récent et au-delà

Miguel Bruno and Denise Gentil

Revue de la Régulation - Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, 2022, vol. 33

Abstract: This paper discusses the factors that contributed to the collapse of the hegemonic bloc that enabled the governability of the Workers’ Party in the period 2003-2016. It is based on the view that in order to understand the economic and political-institutional crisis, it is necessary to analyze the deepening financialization of Brazil, a periphery country, and the way in which rentier accumulation operates in the consolidation of US power in Latin America. The empirical evidence revealed the existence of endogenous factors for the crisis, factors that were already present in the Brazilian economy before the cyclical deterioration that started in 2014. With the end of the commodity price boom, profit and accumulation rates began declining. The recession that started in 2015, coupled with the social discontent stimulated by mainstream media, was conveniently used by national economic groups aligned with the geopolitical interests of the hegemonic nation, the US and its allies. This is representative of a hybrid war aimed at the Workers’ Party government. The econometric results, in addition to corroborating this interpretation, detected the existence of an export-led growth regime between 2001 and 2019 that articulates with financial interests. This is the result of the strong external demand for Brazilian commodities, which refutes the interpretations that considered it a typical finance-led growth or, in a surprisingly optimistic perspective for a country marked by a high concentration of income and stock of wealth, a wage-led growth regime.

Keywords: institutional forms; financialized growth regime; hegemony dispute; Brazil; neoliberalism; political and economic crisis; formes institutionnelles; régime de croissance financiarisé; conflit géopolitique; Brésil; néolibéralisme; crise politique et économique; formas institucionales; régimen de crecimiento financiarizado; conflicto geopolítico; Brasil; neoliberalismo; crisis política y económica (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 G N26 O11 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.4000/regulation.21761

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