Vargas e Goulart:: o populismo em questão

• Main Author: Fonseca, Pedro Cezar Dutra
• Publication Date: 2020
• Other Authors: Salomão, Ivan Colangelo
• Format: Article
• Language: por; eng
• Source: Conhecer (Fortaleza)
• Download full: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/revistaconhecer/article/view/1942
• topic: populismo econômico; Getúlio Vargas; João Goulart; economic populism; Getúlio Vargas; João Goulart

This article deals with the economics and controversies on the economic policy of the second Getúlio Vargasadministration (1951-1954) and the João Goulart administration (1961-1964), as well as their respective historical meanings. Despite conjunctural differences when Goulart took office as President, it is known that it did not differ greatly from the economic context in which Vargas resumed his government in 1951: rising inflation and a slowing trend in GDP growth rates. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which, along with the mandate, added to the worsening external accounts situation, with a balance of payments deficit and difficulties in attracting external capital. In spite of the differences, both governments had tragic outcomes, with negative political and social consequences. Based on the various interpretations of the economic policy throughout these periods, the hypothesis that both Vargas and Goulart fit into the concept of economic populism, established in the literature, is refuted.