How Brazil can defend against Financialization Michael Hudson

In this article, it is argued that for developing countries, privatizing the public domain and financializing the economy is akin to military defeat. To defend themselves, the BRIC countries need to isolate themselves from global debt creation. And Brazil (as well as other developing countries), needs to promote the investment of its economic surplus for raising production and living standards, so as to create a positive feedback between higher wage levels and productivity, hence higher global competitiveness.

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