The twenty century socialist revolutions have turned, first, into statist or technobureaucratic systems and, second, have proved to be a path to capitalism to the extent that the state is an effective instrument to promote ...

Highly indebted countries, particularly the Latin American ones, presented dismal economic outcomes in the 1990s, which are the consequence of the ‘growth cum foreign savings strategy’, or the Second Washington Consensus. ...

This article analyzed the relations between public savings and economic growth. Initially, theoretician-descriptive analysis of these relations showed that the public savings is a more complete pointer of fiscal sustainability ...

Industrial entrepreneurs formed with public bureaucracy a political pact that was dominant in Brazil from the 1930s to the 1980s. National-developmentalism was the development strategy that they adopted. The economic and ...

O estado-nação é a unidade político-territorial específica do capitalismo. Na globalização a sua lógica é a mesma do capitalismo: competir. Mas para alcançar competitividade é preciso que neutralize a tendência à sobreapreciação ...

A consolidate democracy supposes a capable state, and both require strong nation and active civil society. Several democracies in Latin America fail to attain such requirements because they did not complete their capitalist ...

This paper distinguishes the state (the law system and the organization that guarantees it) from the nation-state or country – the territorial political unit formed by a nation, a state and a territory. Second, it defines ...