The Politics of Public Debt : Financialization, Class, and Democracy in Neoliberal Brazil.

Intro -- The Politics of Public Debt: Financialization, Class, and Democracy in Neoliberal Brazil -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Politics of Financialization -- 1 Crisis of Accumulation and Reaction of Finance -- 2 Financial Expansion of the Brazilian Economy -- 3 Fictitious Capital as a Concrete Social Relation -- 2 Capitalist State and Financial Hegemony -- 1 Capitalist Economy and Capitalist State -- 2 Financial Hegemony in the State Apparatus -- 3 The Class Character of Macroeconomic Policy -- 3 Fiscal Superstructure, Expropriation, and Exploitation -- 1 The Financialization of Class Exploitation -- 2 Exploitation beyond Labor Exchange -- 3 Public Debt, Taxation, and Redistribution of Surpluses -- 4 Public Debt and the Rise in the Rate of Exploitation -- 5 State Spending and Appropriation of Income -- 4 Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Democracy -- 1 Capitalism or Democracy -- 2 Depoliticization of Economic Policy -- 3 Selective Bureaucratic Insulation -- 4 Monetary Expectations and Inducements -- 5 The Talking Shop of Macroeconomic Policy -- 6 Economic Democracy and Democratic Socialism -- Conclusion -- Afterword: The 2016 Coup d'État -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The Politics of Public Debt Daniel Bin analyzes how fiscal and monetary policies and the administration of public debt related to class, labor, and democracy during the period of neoliberal financialization in Brazil.

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