A "onda rosa" na América do Sul: um estudo comparado entre Brasil e Argentina.

Abstract

The political-economic history of South America is rescued to help explain how the economic policies undertaken during the Pink Tide, which occurred in the region at the beginning of this century, were not enough to overcome the neoliberal productive structure and the dependent and subordinate character, typical of an economy on the periphery of world capitalism. In this effort, some concepts are used, and the Capitalist Development Pattern becomes the comparison term that guides the entire research and comparative study. Throughout the text, economic dynamics are explained by the concepts of the Development Pattern, which summarizes the productive and dependent structure of peripheral economies, and the concept of Macroeconomic Policy Regime that interprets cyclical changes, both strongly conditioned and influenced by the external scenario. It is concluded that due to the maintenance of the neoliberal economic base, constituted by a set of structural reforms that were difficult to reverse, implemented over at least four decades, there was no possibility of establishing structural changes to enable a new productive dynamic in the region.