Lavinas L. The takeover of social policy by financialization: the brazilian paradox. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; 2017.

Abstract

Neoliberalism has been a reality all over the world, in fact, for several decades. It is very closely associated with the process of accentuation of economic globalization that has been occurring in the same period. This, in turn, is linked to an unprecedented expansion, penetrating all domains of the social life, of the finance capital. The circle comes full with, in practice, neoliberalism joining the operations of finance capital, as economic policy and justification. This goes beyond, however, since, all together, imply a form of construction of subjectivity that penetrates to its stomach. Brazil is experiencing this visibly and, after the rise of Michel Temer, through shady means, to the Presidency of the Republic, in 2016, the prospect is a deepening of this process. Has it, actually, begun there? That is what the recent book of Lena Lavinas, 'The takeover of social policy by financialization: the brazilian paradox' 1 , is about. She examines the governments of the Workers' Party and shows us that this financialization of the economy and the advance of global neoliberalism among us did not stop during this period, quite contrary. If the process began with the crisis of the 1980s and had, in the governments of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a strong deepening, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff had entered even more this path. In fact, it is a very severe evaluation of the project-even though, especially, of the results-of the 'social developmentalism' applied in the period, which aimed at building a mass 535

Os desafios atuais da luta pelo direito universal à saúde no Brasil

“…Analyzing the connections between the financialization process, the social protection system and the Brazilian tax system, the growing trade in private pension plans and health care in the 2000s stems not only from the entry into these markets of large multi-sector financialized companies but also of increased fiscal subsidies given to the buyers of these plans 22 .…”