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MILITARY REGIME OF BRAZIL TIGHTLY CONTROLS THE ECONOMY. YET THE PRIVATE SECTOR HAS NOT SUFFERED OR EXPERIENCED ANXIETY, SINCE THE POLICIES OF THE GOVERNMENT ARE NOT STATIST. DESPITE PUBLIC INSITUTIONS OF GREAT ECONOMIC POWER THE REGINE HAS A PROPRIVATE ENTERPRISE IDEOLOGY. FOREIGN FIRMS, IN PARTICULAR, HAVE BENEFITED FROM BRAZILIAN GOVERNMT POLICIES ORIENTED TOWARDS PROFITABILITY AND PRODUCTIVITY.

Comments on Amartya Sen's book, Development as Freedom & argues that Sen challenges the worldview of his critics, including the editors of the Wall Street Journal. Sen argues that economic development should be measured by its ability to increase people's freedom to live in accordance with what they value. Sen expresses his ideas with a clarity & logical elegance, but much of his thought in the book is left unexplored. It is important to reach beyond Sen's writing to prevent market-based power inequalities from undermining development & freedom. Sen's capability approach for development as freedom is valuable, & the theory invites additional work on his efforts to theorize the possibility & necessity of "social choice.". 8 References. L. A. Hoffman

Introduces three articles which chronicle Brazilian efforts to construct a new party system between 1978 and 1985. The legacy of military rule is their common starting point. They show how the military's suppression of normal politics inadvertently opened certain avenues for the renovation of democratic politics. Each offers an analysis of 'post-authoritarian' politics and insights into the kind of space Brazil's democratic opening has provided for the democratic, socialist left. (JLN)

Argues that systemic perspectives on foreign economic policy must be complemented by an account of the interaction between the effects of international position and the dynamics of domestic politics. (Abstract amended)