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Regarding criticisms made of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's policies at the
meeting of ALAS (Asociacion Latinoamericana de Sociologia).
The essential criticism of Cardoso, which often came up more as allusion
than as a direct analysis, was that he has bought into the logic of
neoliberalism and globalization with a vengeance.
Emir Sader, of the Universidad de Sao Paulo, made the most explicit
criticisms that I heard. He offered the observation that Brazilian
interest rates are twice as high as those of the countries with the
next highest rates in support of the notion that on this matter Cardoso
is applying an extreme version of the model.
As there were seventeen concurrent working groups at the conference, I
cannot say if others defended Cardoso in these sessions.
Max J. Castro
North-South Center
Please feel free to post these comments to any list you wish.
On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, s_sanderson wrote:
> Dear Professor Castro,
>
> I wonder if you could share with the WSN network some of the criticisms that
> were made of Cardoso's work at the ALAS meetings in Mexico City. Chris
> Chase-Dunn forwarded your comments to the WSN, which I read with interest. The
> entire WSN list could benefit from the comments on Cordoso, if you could
> summarize them briefly.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Stephen Sanderson
>
>