SHORT TEXTS

Revista de Estudos Sociais e Urbanos, n.6, junho 1982.

1981. The technobureaucratic class is increasingly powerful but we should not be deterministic about it. (Introduction to the first edition of A Sociedade Estatal e a Tecnoburocracia)

1981 Inequality is very much associated to wage differences. The social state and the social consumption that it provides is an efficient form of reducing inequality. Debate with Paul Singer (Lecture)

1981. The distinction between productive and unproductive labour was not developed by Adam Smith and Marx to define the class system. Rather, it was originally used to describe the rise of capitalism in England. Poulantzas, however, sought to utilize these two concepts in order to define a new class - the new petty bourgeoisie. Capitalists would be the owners of the means of production; the working class, blue-collar employees, the productive workers; and the new class, the new petty bourgeoisie, the unproductive workers. In this chapter I will discuss this attempt, showing that the categories of productive and unproductive labour, not only do not help in the characterization of social classes, but have also lost their usefulness for helping to understand contemporary capitalism.

1981. Economic policy is becoming endogenous as the state gets immobilised for fiscal and financial reasons. (Paper Brazilian Journal of Political Economy)

1981. Debate with Bolivar Lamounier and André Lara Rezende where my view on the "abertura" opposite to Lamounier's is clear.

1980. Review of book by Paulo Renato de Souza. São Paulo: Hucitec-Fucamp, 1980.

1980. Resenha de Ralph Miliband (1977 [1979]).  Rio de Janeiro, Zahar Editores, 1979.

1980. Short essay showing how the students of the more important business school in Brazil received a progressive education. (Revista Senhor).

1980. Response to Lima & Belluzzo'critique of my theory of technobureaucracy. They criticize me according to Marx, but I claim to be more faithful to Marx's spirit. (Note Estudos Cebrap)

1985. Review of book by Jorge Miglioli,Acumulação de Capital e Demanda Efetiva in which the author presents the Marxist view of effective demand. (Review in Revista de Economia Política)

1979. Political economy born with capitalism, administrative theory rose with monopolist capitalism and the growth of business firms. Economics discusses market coordination of economic systems, administration, power coordination of organizations.(Note: Revista de Administração de Empresas)

1979. The central problem that the Brazilian economy faces is not growth but income distribution. (Lecture in Curitiba)

1979. The Brazilian entrepreneurs may not have political hegemony but they have ideological hegemony. (Preface to the book by Fernando C. Prestes Motta).

1978. Industrial civilization involved two creative revolution: the capitalist and the scientific revolution. But it threatens freedom. (Review of Celso Furtados book "Criatividade e Dependência na Civilização Industrial, in Revista de Economia Política)