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Inventing Money in Brazil: From Real Plan to Creative Currencies
Brazil has become an icon of price stabiblization and structural reforms involving the creation of successive currencies up to the success of the Real. This paper explores the theoretical horizons of structuralist Brazilian and Latin American monetary creation policies while exploring the direct and indirect influence of the regulationist perspective on Brazilian economists that participated in this historic policy evolution up to the current economic crisis. The regulationist perspective is also tributary to anthropological such as Aglietta and Girard on violence and mimesis. Our analysis of the Real Plan and its aftermath relates to the philosophical and political dimensions of stabilization policies in Brazil and Latin America. As a final and practical example of monetary "creativity" in Brazil from a different, affective perspective, is the social currency movement and the promotion of "creative currencies" by the City of Knowledge research group at USP. We show the connection of these recent, bottom-up developments with the Francophone perspective on the "affective turn".
