Lena Lavinas is Professor of Welfare Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the author of The Takeover of Social Policy by Financialization: The Brazilian Paradox (2017).

March 19, 2021

Interviews

Party Politics and Social Policy

A conversation between Lena Lavinas, André Singer, and Barbara Weinstein on three decades of party politics and social policy in Brazil.

, André Singer, Barbara Weinstein

In The Takeover of Social Policy by Financialization, Lena Lavinas names the “Brazilian Paradox”: the model of social inclusion implemented by the Workers’ Party under President Lula and President Rousseff promotes a logic of financial inclusion and market incorporation, and…