China-Brazil, an Instructive Comparison

Abstract

Why the investment rate is high in China and low in Brazil? Why Schumpeterian behaviors seem to dominate in China and rentiers behaviors in Brazil? Contrary to the imposed ideas – the famous : “there is no alternative” of Thatcher –, comparing allows to understand that alternatives exist, the imagination feeding on the comparison. The purpose of the developments that follow is to understand the rise of China and Brazil in the 2000s, the limits today of their patterns of growth and finally imagine possible alternatives taking into account the conflicts between social classes and inside each class.