Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Award Juca Pato 2015
Born	São Paulo, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Website	http://www.bresserpereira.org.br
Institution	Getulio Vargas Foundation
School or tradition	Development economics, Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
Alma mater	University of São Paulo
Influences	Karl Marx, Max Weber, John Maynard Keynes, John Kenneth Galbraith, Celso Furtado, Nicholas Kaldor, Ignácio Rangel
Contributions	Inertial inflation, new developmentalism, technobureaucracy
Awards	Emeritus Professor, from Getulio Vargas Foundation (2005), Doctor Honoris Causa, from University of Buenos Aires (2010), James Street Scholar, from Association for Evolutionary Economics (2012)

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira (June 30, 1934) is a Brazilian economist and social scientist. He teaches at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, in São Paulo, since 1962, and edits the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy since 1981. He was finance minister (1987), and in this condition he proposed what would be eventually the Plan Brady (Brady Bond) which solved the 1980s’ major foreign debt crisis. He was minister of public administration (1995–1998) and of science and technology (1999). His work as economist is currently focused, on the theoretical side, on new developmentalism, development macroeconomics, the methodological critique of neoclassical economics, the theory of the democratic, social, and developmental state, and on the critique of neoliberalism; and, on the applied side, the Economy of Brazil and its society.

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira was born in São Paulo, in 1934. His bachelor's degree was in Law by the University of São Paulo (1957); his MBA, by Michigan State University (1960); his PhD (1974) and his Livre Docência in Economics (1984), by University of São Paulo. He teaches at the Getulio Vargas Foundation since 1962. He was visiting professor at the (Pantheon-Sorbonne University)(1977), at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2003-2010), and at the University of São Paulo (1989 and 2002–03). He was also visiting fellow at Oxford University in Nuffield College and St Antony's College in 1999 and 2001.

From 1963 to 1982, while keeping his academic activities, he was vice-president of Pão de Açucar Supermarkets(GPA (company)); he participated from the opening of its second story, in 1963; in 1982 the firm had become the largest retail chain in Brazil. In 1983, when Brazil was beginning to democratize, he entered public life, first as president of the Bank of the State of São Paulo (1983–84). In 1985 and 1986, he was chief of staff of the governor of São Paulo, André Franco Montoro. In 1987, he became Finance Minister of Brazil in the José Sarney administration. After leaving the ministry, he participated from the foundation of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party - PSDB. Between 1995 and 1998, he was Minister of Federal Administration and Reform of the State and, in 1999 Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, both under the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration. Since 1999 he is full-time academic professor. In 2010 he left the PSDB with the argument that the political party had turned conservative.