O processo de aprendizado social em experiências econômicas brasileiras: o PAEG, o milagre econômico e o IIPND

Abstract

The objective of this project is to make a reading of relevant economic measures in the recent history of Brazil, under the hypothesis that the formulation of these public policies took place as a result of a process of social learning - which we will conventionally write as social learning. Present in works by authors such as Hugh Heclo (1974) and Peter A. Hall (1993), this theory is based on the assumptions that public policies are the result of experiences generated by previous policies; the results of these policies constrain the following choices; specialist technicians and bureaucracy, as well as the ideas and expertise of these technicians, play a central role in the formulation of policies; the State has autonomy for the elaboration of public policies, but it is not impervious to the influence of interest groups and social pressures. One of the central ideas of this work, therefore, is to verify how economic policy decisions carry legacies of previous choices and continue to generate new legacies and experiences for subsequent decisions. This process is based on certain paradigms, technical expertise and political contingencies. To test these premises, we will make a comparative analysis of three macroeconomic policies that marked the military regime in Brazil, between 1964 and 1979. They are the PAEG (Program of Economic Action), from 1964 to 1967; the PED (Strategic Development Program), from 1967, whose measures resulted in the so-called Economic Miracle, from 1968 to 1973, and the II PND (National Development Plan), adopted between 1975 and 1979