A Brasília, as Brasílias: localizando a narrativa "comum" nos usos da cidade

Domestic coalitions in the FTAA negotiations: the Brazilian case

“…In Brazil, the results were no different, which contrasts with the uncompromising defence in favour of 'protectionism' made by industrial leaders both in the 1930s (Diniz 1978), when the Vargas regime discussed industrial policy measures, as in 1950, when it adopted tariffs consistent with the developmentalist project (Bielschowsky 2000), and even in the 1980s, when discussing the market reserve for the pharmaceutical industry and informaticsalthough on this last occasion there was no longer full support for the protectionist position (Velasco and Cruz 1992). Quoting Roberto Simonsen in the 1930s to clarify the contrast:…”

“…Even Simonsen, identified as a stronghold of the desenvolvimentista ideology, 3 who was a vigorous advocate of import and exchange rate control, and of economic planning by State officials, considered that production itself should be conducted mainly by private capital -national and even foreign -by restricting the public power to act where the private capital was insufficient (Bielschowsky 2000;Diniz 1978). With the installation of the military regime in 1964 and with State-owned companies spread over many economic activities, criticism against the State became more frequent, especially since, in the view of Renato Boschi and Eli Diniz (1978), the circle of decision-makers became more restricted during the military regime, reversing the corporatist tradition founded by Getulio Vargas of incorporating class associations into the State's economic planning. The Constitution of 1988, by detracting from the State the possibility of economic activity for profit, restricted the space of public enterprises, but assigned some functions to the public sector which, in our view, due to globalisation, are today priorities on the agenda of the business community.…”