<marquage typemarq="gras"/> The first three years of Lula?s government have been marked by several trends, which reveal the fragility of this government?s achievements and underline the country?s increasing economic and social imbalances. The GDP?s erratic growth rate partly results from pursuing the previous government?s...

This article describes the social and economic policies in the 2000s, the strategies chosen by the government to confront the economic crisis and the social programs which became part of the “Battle of Ideas.†It is argued that the economic and social aspects were pursued in an...

During the ninety decade and the first years of 2000, the Brazilian society has seen frequent ´disputes´ amongst SUS financing inside social security. Even after the Constitutional Amendment 29/2000, several aspects which define financing have been in doubt, indicating how weak is the...

In the first section, this article discusses the concept of base retirement, its difference in relation to secured minimum income and to the World Bank's proposal, and complementary retirement, which is associated with base retirement. In the second section, in keeping with the previous...

The social policy under the ´Iron Heel´ of economic policy in the period of 2003-2006 - The article discusses the impact of economic policy maintanence in accordance with the new pattern of international capitalist accumulation under financial capital dominance in main Social Security areas....

This working paper proposes an analysis - from a Marxist point of view - of the relationships between John Maynard Keynes and the economic mainstream of his time (first part), then presents the theoretical elements on the crisis developed by this author (second part), and finally questions, in...

Ce cahier de recherche propose une analyse - d'un point de vue d'inspiration marxiste - des relations entretenues par John Maynard Keynes avec l'économie dominante à son époque (première partie), puis présente les éléments théoriques sur la crise qu'il développa lui-même (deuxième...