Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira (born 30 June 1934) is a Brazilian economist and social scientist. He teaches at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, a position he has held since 1959. In 1981, he founded the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy and since then has served as its editor.

Bresser-Pereira served as the Minister of Finance of Brazil in 1987, under the presidency of José Sarney, and helped propose what would eventually become the Brady Plan which solved the country's foreign debt crisis. He also led the Ministry of Federal Administration and Reform of the State (MARE) from 1995 to 1998 and was Minister of Science and Technology in 1999.

His main influences are Marx, Max Weber and Keynes; on the Brazilian economy, Celso Furtado e Ignácio Rangel. As an economist, he aligns with classical developmentalism and is a post-Keynesian. He has never defined himself as a Marxist, but remarks his intellectual admiration for Marx, mainly because he adopts a historico-structural method, the origins of which lie in the dialectical materialist tradition. His main contributions, by the order they were made, have been on Brazilian political economy, Marxian economics, social theory, the theory of inertial inflation, democratic transition and consolidation, managerial reform of the state apparatus theory, the methodological critique of neoclassical economics, and the economics and political economy of new developmentalism.