8 Accelerating Factors in 1979 and 1983

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Tables and Figures VI
4. Foreword VII
5. Preface XI
6. 1 Introduction: Inertial Inflation and the Heterodox Shock in Brazil 1
7. Part 1 The Political Economy of Inflation
8. 2 Inflation in Oligopolistic and Technobureaucratic Capitalism 27
9. 3 The Theory of Inertial or Autonomous Inflation 65
10. 4 Administrative Policy: Gradualism or Shock 83
11. 5 Inertial Inflation and the Phillips Curve 109
12. Part 2 The Brazilian Inflation
13. 6 The Contradictions of Brazilian Inflation: 1964-1979 119
14. 7 Recession and Inflation: 1981 143
15. 8 Accelerating Factors in 1979 and 1983 151
16. 9 Inertial Inflation on the Eve of the Shock 169
17. 10 The Difficulties of the Cruzado and the Austral Plans 177
18. Statistical Appendix 185
19. Bibliography 187
20. Index 197
21. About the Book and the Authors 205