Liberalismo econômico no Brasil na década de 1990: o governo Collor e as privatizações em Goiás

Abstract

This study investigates the historical, economic, political and social determinants of the phenomenon of economic liberalism in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s. It points out that international and national factors influenced the 1989 elections, electing Fernando Collor de Melo as president of Brazil. It analyzes the Collor government plan, designed under the inspiration of liberalism and economic-liberal measures, such as the opening of the national market to the foreign market, privatizations and reduction of the public sector. It studies the Brazilian economic and social context at the time of elaboration of “Brazil: A National Reconstruction Project”, and evaluates the international political context, such as the stagnation of socialist countries and the capitalist economy rise. It demonstrates how Collor's liberalism was decisive for the privatization process in Goiás, in which several companies were sold to the private sector