The Power of the Central Bank of Brazil in a Financialised Economy: an institutionalist and Foucauldian analysis
This article attempts to understand political economy by explaining the ambivalence of the economic policy that successfully reconciled redistribution and orthodoxy in Brazil, under the governments led by the Workers’ Party – until that reconciliation proved unsustainable. The analysis combines inst...
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| author | Jaime Marques Pereira Miguel Bruno Stéphane Longuet |
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| description | This article attempts to understand political economy by explaining the ambivalence of the economic policy that successfully reconciled redistribution and orthodoxy in Brazil, under the governments led by the Workers’ Party – until that reconciliation proved unsustainable. The analysis combines institutional macroeconomics with a sociological perspective on economic policy instrumentation. The former points out how the distributive purpose became unsustainable, once the financialisation of the capital accumulation process was only limited – but not fundamentally questioned. The latter approach characterises a cognitive lock-in of the developmental State’s improvement. We show that this lock-in was an incremental transformative result of liberal governmentality devices, which redirected the central bank to a new function of gathering together what can be called an instrumental coalition that gave a veto power to financial interests. The central bank has therefore been a crucial institution in a government of the population, in the sense given by Foucault to this concept. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c78b3409f02466ebf9b920670c0a01e2024-02-13T13:02:38ZengAssociation Recherche & RégulationRevue de la Régulation1957-779633210.4000/regulation.21802The Power of the Central Bank of Brazil in a Financialised Economy: an institutionalist and Foucauldian analysisJaime Marques PereiraMiguel BrunoStéphane LonguetThis article attempts to understand political economy by explaining the ambivalence of the economic policy that successfully reconciled redistribution and orthodoxy in Brazil, under the governments led by the Workers’ Party – until that reconciliation proved unsustainable. The analysis combines institutional macroeconomics with a sociological perspective on economic policy instrumentation. The former points out how the distributive purpose became unsustainable, once the financialisation of the capital accumulation process was only limited – but not fundamentally questioned. The latter approach characterises a cognitive lock-in of the developmental State’s improvement. We show that this lock-in was an incremental transformative result of liberal governmentality devices, which redirected the central bank to a new function of gathering together what can be called an instrumental coalition that gave a veto power to financial interests. The central bank has therefore been a crucial institution in a government of the population, in the sense given by Foucault to this concept.https://journals.openedition.org/regulation/21802Brazilcentral bankgovernmentalityfinancialisationmonetary policy |
| spellingShingle | Jaime Marques Pereira Miguel Bruno Stéphane Longuet The Power of the Central Bank of Brazil in a Financialised Economy: an institutionalist and Foucauldian analysis Revue de la Régulation Brazil central bank governmentality financialisation monetary policy |
| title | The Power of the Central Bank of Brazil in a Financialised Economy: an institutionalist and Foucauldian analysis |
| title_full | The Power of the Central Bank of Brazil in a Financialised Economy: an institutionalist and Foucauldian analysis |
| title_fullStr | The Power of the Central Bank of Brazil in a Financialised Economy: an institutionalist and Foucauldian analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Power of the Central Bank of Brazil in a Financialised Economy: an institutionalist and Foucauldian analysis |
| title_short | The Power of the Central Bank of Brazil in a Financialised Economy: an institutionalist and Foucauldian analysis |
| title_sort | power of the central bank of brazil in a financialised economy an institutionalist and foucauldian analysis |
| topic | Brazil central bank governmentality financialisation monetary policy |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/regulation/21802 |
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