The Effects of Financial Globalization on Brazil (1999-2002)

Abstract: The twenty-first century was a transition that allowed us to identify a particular moment in Brazilian Economic History, the convergence between the orientation of neoliberalism and of the Real Plan. This perspective that acted as an interpretive key of the paradigm of the “New Economy”, after the technological Revolution that characterized this period. This context led our research theme to relate the effects of financial globalization on Brazil, accordingly to the perspective of the editorial agenda of the newspaper “O Estado de S. Paulo” (1999-2002). The methodology of documentary research allowed to classify, under “analysis and synthesis”, more than 1,400 editorials. The results revealed an editorial agenda that was constituted in the exercise of elaborating discourses on the Brazilian reality as part of a narrative that was consolidated from XIX century on the history of Brazil Republic.

Key words: economic history of Brazil republic; new republic; globalization; real plan; “o estado de S. Paulo”

JEL codes: B, F, N