Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira (born 30 June 1934) is a Brazilian economist and social scientist. He teaches at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo since 1959. In 1981, he founded the ''Brazilian Journal of Political Economy and since then is its editor''.

Bresser-Pereira served as the Minister of Finance of Brazil in 1987, under the presidency of José Sarney, and helped propose what would eventually become the Brady Plan which solved the country's foreign debt crisis. He also led the Ministry of Federal Administration and Reform of the State (MARE) from 1995 to 1998 and was Minister of Science and Technology in 1999.

His main influences were Marx, Max Weber and Keynes; on the Brazilian economy, Celso Furtado e Ignácio Rangel. As an economist, he was a classical developmentalism and a post-Keynesian; he never defined himself as a Marxist, but always remarks his intellectual admiration for him, mainly because he adopts a historico-structural methods whose origins are in Marx and Engels. His main contributions, by the order they were made, have been on Brazilian political economy, Marxian economics, social theory, the theory of inertial inflation, democratic transition and consolidation, managerial reform of the state apparatus theory, the methodological critique of neoclassical economics, and the economics and political economy of new developmentalism. Provided by Wikipedia