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.

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…