The real and its imaginary

Renato Janine Ribeiro ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1996, vol. 16, issue 2, 165-174

Abstract: This paper examines the symbolic character of the Brazilian new currency, theReal, whose name suggests its ambition of not only represent a value, but to be the realityitself. Also, the utilization of natural pictures instead of historical ones on the stamp of thenew bills points the wish of giving the character of reality to the currency launched in 1994,meanwhile shows the inflation as product of a disordered imagination. Therefore, the newcurrency symbolic representation matches very well to the political discourse that sustainsthe Real. JEL Classification: Z13; Z19.

Keywords: Real; stabilization; inflation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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