1. General Introduction.

2. The unequal globalization

Introduction

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1. Exorbitant Privilege: the new American monetary and trade systems

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2. Financial Globalization and the Succession of Liquidity Cycles and Crisis

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3. Global Production Chains and the role of East Asia

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4. The new international division of labour: South America (as Middle East and Africa) lags behind

3. Brazilian reactions

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1. The end of development: causes and consequences of the debt crisis in the 1980´s

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2. The neoliberal turn in the 1990´s

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3. The crisis at century´s end

4. Lula´s Brazil between Luck and Virtue

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1. The new multilateral payments system, boom and bubble: impacts on South America from 2002

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2. Economy policy: continuity and change

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3. Why the economy grew? Income distribution and poverty eradication as engines of growth

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4. The structural vulnerabilities

5. The Watershed: The Global Crisis and its Consequences

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1. The Global Crisis as Catalyst of Change

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2. The transformation of the multilateral payments system and its impact on South America

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3. Brazil Reacts: Success and Illusion

6. Dilma´s Brazil in hope

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1. The Currency War and the global fight for Markets

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2. South America and Brazil up for grabs

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3. The first ill-timed austerity drive: rationale and results

7. Dilma´s Brazil in turmoil

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1. The new political economic matrix: too little, too late, too short

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2. Bourgeois resistance and the construction of economic conventions

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3. Economic downturn, business sentiment and popular revolt in 2013 and 2014

8. The failure of austerity

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1. The second ill-timed austerity drive and the intensification of conflicts in Brazil

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2. China as friend and foe

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3. The slow motion of the global economic recovery and alternative scenarios

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9. What is to be done?