Neither orthodoxy nor populism: the Second Vargas Administration

Abstract

This paper analyzes the economy and the controversies surrounding the economic policy in the Second Vargas Administration (1951-1954), as well as its historical significance. As a methodological option, it starts with the different approaches the implementation of the economic policy went through along the period, which are analyzed pari passu with the main studies dividing their analysts and interpreters.

Vargas; Populism; National-Developmentalism