Manager, Policymaker, and Intellectual: The Multiple Faces of Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira's Thought

Ivan Colangelo Salomão ()

No 2025_17, Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP)

Abstract: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira is one of the most important Brazilian polymaths of the 20th century. His long career in government bureaucracy guarantees him a prominent place in Brazilian public debate. Although he is recognized for his work as a professor of economics, his work spans different sectors of the social sciences. From an academic standpoint, his main contributions to literature have been in the fields of (1) inertial inflation, (2) the theory of state managerial reform and the emergence of the managerial class, and (3) new developmentalism. This article summarizes and presents the latter two, drawing not only on his own work over the past 40 years, but also on that of other relevant researchers who have addressed these same topics

Keywords: Bresser-Pereira; Economic and Social Thought; Bureaucracy; Developmentalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B22 B3 B59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-12-19
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