Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201546 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CHOPE Working Paper No. 2019-12
Publisher: 
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE), Durham, NC
Abstract: 
The paper investigates the political and economic contexts of the controversy about the causes of the significant increase of income concentration in Brazil during the 1960s. That was the most important economic debate that took place under the military dictatorship that ran the country from 1964 to 1985. The perceived sharp increase in income inequality posed a challenge to the economic legitimation of the military regime, which had by the early 1970s achieved high rates of economic growth accompanied by falling inflation. We discuss the reasons behind the relatively open economic debate during a period of political repression, as well as its international dimension as reflected in the role played by institutions such as the World Bank.
Subjects: 
authoritarianism
income distribution
debate
censorship
Brazil
JEL: 
B20
D30
N16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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