Financeirização e dependência da economia brasileira no pós-1990

Abstract

The present work aimed to analyze the intensification of Brazilian’s economy dependence on the central countries, in the post-90’s, in function of the way in which Brazil is inserted in the new financialized stage of global capitalism, in which the dominant nations already practiced intensively the accumulation of capital, primarily in financial channels. In this way, this research deepened into historical course of transformations and the structural characteristics of the world economy at this stage, how this process took place in the precursor countries, how it followed for the successor countries in the subordinate insertion and mainly to observe how the heteronomy of developing nations vis-a-vis the centrals occurs in the case of Brazil. The evidence presented here, through the hypothetical-deductive and historical-structuralist method, was based on what was proposed by Marx regarding the categories of interest-bearing capital and fictitious capital, in addition to also using the theory of dependence as an elucidative basis for the idiosyncrasies of Brazilian dependence. Therefore, the outcome we arrived at is that the interrelation between the two processes that we propose to investigate here, financialization and dependence, only existed because there was the State as an omnipresent actor whose autonomy, in different measures, historically it was given over to the interests of globalized finance, and, therefore, the political, economic and social consequences for Brazilian society were and continue to be indubitable.