Monday, March 27, 2017

Latin America's Crisis: The End of the Commodity Super-Cycle, or the Return of Neoliberalism

Video of the talk at Keene State College on March 20th, 2017.

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  1. AnonymousApril 1, 2017 at 9:06 AM

    Do you think that some heterodox economic policy was applied in Brazil before the current crisis?

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    1. Matias VernengoApril 3, 2017 at 11:51 AM

      There was some effort after the Great Recession. The so-called PAC (Plano de Aceleração do Crecimento). Expansionary fiscal policy. That's it. Mind you many within the Workers' Party remained convinced of orthodox views on fiscal policy, and some still remain.

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